Hide Shapes / Delete Shapes Pages '09

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marsofearth Author

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Hide Shapes / Delete Shapes Pages '09

Hello,

Using Pages '09

Any one know of a way to Hide a set of shapes globally for all sections in a Pages Document?

Or perhaps a way of automating?

I have some 48 page catalogues I need to resize and am using a Group of shapes to mark out the Trim, safe and margins.

I would use the guides but I would need to rebuild 12 x 48pages = 576 Guides to reposition per Catalogue on average.

Anyone know of a way to quickly link all the shapes to quickly delete them or hide them after I have finished layout ready for export?

Thank You!

Mars

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1), 17" MacBookPro3.1 A1229 (EMC 2137)

Posted on Feb 11, 2015 1:26 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 11, 2015 1:51 PM in response to marsofearth

Make the set > Group them > Menu > Format > Advanced > Move Object to Section Master

When you are finished > Make Master Objects Selectable > delete them

Peter

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Answer 2

marsofearth Author

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Feb 11, 2015 2:28 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Sounds Good,

However "Move Object to Section Master" is grey'd out. Unable to select.

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Answer 3

Feb 11, 2015 3:21 PM in response to marsofearth

Sounds like you have a Layout document and not a Word Processing document.

In a Layout document you need to set it all up individually.

Peter

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marsofearth Author

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Feb 11, 2015 3:40 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Hmmm tried document but does not seem like a very good fit for producing product catalogues.

Does anyone know if there is a way to script guides into place? It would save me adjusting a few thousand guides.

Thanks!

Mars

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Answer 5

Feb 11, 2015 3:52 PM in response to marsofearth

You need to think laterally.

You can certainly produce Product Catalogues in Word Processing documents (I assume that is what you meant).

The Images/Textboxes, if you use them do not have to be in the default text layer, although you can if you want to. I have done Manuals and Travel Guides in WP documents because they have more features than Layout documents.

btw It sounds like you intend to create these as Commercial Print Ready. Do you actually know how to do that in Pages and all the problems that creates?

Pages is not Indesign or Quark XPress.

Peter

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marsofearth Author

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Feb 11, 2015 4:09 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

I am open to lateral thinking... or any other form of thinking as long as it produces result towards a goal.

Yes they have been commercial print ready, for the last two years running.

What kind of problems are you referring to?

Is there a way to scale/position images in a wp doc exactly using Metrics Inspector?

Our catalogues are very image intensive with some text boxes for those kind enough to read 🙂

I have InDesign, used it in the past and I agree it is really powerful, I just find image layout generally looks nicer in Pages as I am building.

Giving me a better impression of how my end product will look.

Purely skin deep, I suppose I am a rather shallow person for this.

just wondering if there is a way to automate guide layout.

thanks,

Mars

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Answer 7

Feb 11, 2015 4:12 PM in response to marsofearth

I tested Captured pages in Pages '09, saved as templates.

They retain the guides in the new sections for both Word Processing and Layout documents.

Peter

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Answer 8

Feb 11, 2015 4:21 PM in response to marsofearth

A floating object is a floating object in WP or Layout and can be positioned using the Inspectors.

Or you can manage inline objects and text in a Word Processing document using basic typography such as paragraph settings and tabs:

Peter

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marsofearth Author

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Feb 11, 2015 4:21 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Yah that works.

Problem is this though. I have to resize all our catalogues for Asian Dimension layout now. How would a template help in that regard?

Is there a way to automator script guides or even AppleScript guides at all?

I'll just keep chugging through it.

Maybe I'll check out QuarkXpress (used to use it back in 2000 before I ditched it for InDesign) see how it has evolved. Just seems Quark and InDesign are stuck back in a legacy history of crappy UI and rendering engines. Pages actually has some promise if Apple gets back to being a software company again.

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Answer 10

Feb 11, 2015 4:27 PM in response to marsofearth

What do you mean by "Asian Dimension layout"?

I don't know of any Automator/AppleScript to control guides but you could look.

Peter

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marsofearth Author

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Feb 11, 2015 4:39 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Asian, metric.

Not A4 either. 210x285 it seems to be what most of the printers push out where our catalogues are required, so decided to stick to the asian default instead of custom sizing to reduce risk of mass error.

I'll try testing automator see how to get that to work, and inspect applescript to see what Pages has for scriptability when I get a chance...

I give the wp doc a try too, see what I am missing out on. No way to convert layout to wp is there?

Cheers,

Mars

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Answer 12

Feb 11, 2015 4:51 PM in response to marsofearth

Since Layout is just objects you can copy them over, but I'd take the opportunity to carefully and systematically construct a quality template with correct guides, placeholders, layout, varied sections, styles, set color swatches and captured pages.

What you would do for an efficient and fast workflow anyway.

There are several ways to format pages using combinations of text formatting, columns, layout breaks and floating and master objects.

I always look at each job for what works best.

Peter

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