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    <p>I'm working on a script where I take a business card design and use it to generate a sheet of paper that has ten cards on it to match a template to print temporary cards. The tricky part here is the bleeds; they'll overlap down the middle so I need to make clipping masks for each one.</p> <p>I came up with a system where I made the frames that would become the clipping masks, duplicated and moved the cards where they need to go, and then more or less did the following:</p> <pre><code>dupCard[i].select(); app.cut(); frameGroupFront[i].select(); app.pasteInto(); </code></pre> <p>This works great. But because it's a little resource-intensive, I tried to hide the working file upon creation and use workingFile.windows.add(); at the end as I've done in the past. But when there's no window, select() doesn't work! I get error 90886 stating that "No document windows are open."</p> <p>How can I select the items I want so that I can cut and paste it without having a visible window? If not possible, is there an alternate solution to the problem?</p> <h3>EDIT:</h3> <p>I was asked to provide a scripting sample, so here's the most basic sample I can furnish:</p> <pre><code>var newPage = app.documents.add(); var myRectangle = newPage.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[1, 1, 5, 5]}); var myRectangle2 = newPage.rectangles.add({geometricBounds:[1, 1, 3, 3]}); myRectangle.select(); app.cut(); myRectangle2.select(); app.pasteInto(); </code></pre> <p>This script works. But, take the first line and do app.documents.add(false) instead, and it doesn't work because no document window is open. In this example, I'd like to be able to get the one rectangle inside the other with no window visible.</p>
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    1. CODo I understand correctly that you're first setting up the boxes which will act as clipping masks. Into these you place the business cards (which are for example PDFs)?
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    2. COYup! That's exactly it. The business cards are actually a group of objects in InDesign, though I'd imagine the question would be the same if they were placed PDFs.
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    3. COI don't think this is possible without a physical window open because the select/cut/paste basically act on the interface itself just like when a user cuts/pastes. If you deal with the objects directly without the cut/paste/select commands it would be faster.
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