APub detaching from master page for ever

[Gianni Becattini]

I am sure I already did it, but am not able to replicate.

How to remove the link to the master page for ever without changing the content of the page?

(not simply Edit Detached)

Thanks

[thomaso]

1. Select the Master Layer -> choose "Edit Detached".
2. Select the layers you want to release -> right-click -> choose "Release"  …  or drag the selected layers outside the master layer.

[Gianni Becattini]

Thanks. Do I wrongly remember that there was a more automatic way? (many pages at a time)

[carl123]

Select the pages in the Pages panel

Right-click and select "Clear Masters" 

Is that what you did previously?

Or do you want to promote all existing Master page content onto the normal page? (for several pages)

[thomaso]

39 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Or do you want to promote all existing Master page content onto the normal page? (for several pages)

The OP says: "remove master (…) without changing the content of the page".

I expected this would be possible with the option to "Apply" > "None" in combination with "Migrate" – but regardless whether "Replace" is en- or disabled, this appears to delete the master content from the pages.

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Do you know a way that works to maintain all existing master's content for all or various selected pages? – Since the various pages may contain additional objects inside a master layer also the option "Edit Linked" + dragging layers, executed on a certain page, would not work. (and if, it would do it for ALL pages and could not get limited to certain pages only).

[carl123]

34 minutes ago, thomaso said:

I expected this would be possible with the option to "Apply" > "None" in combination with "Migrate"

Me too but it doesn't

But if you create a new blank master, you can apply that with Migrate and it works. Then delete that blank master (optional)

Bear in mind Migrate only seems to work for Frame Content (e.g. Text Frames or Picture Frames that have had content added on the corresponding regular page) It does not work for stuff like shapes or images just placed on a Master page

 

 

 

[thomaso]

16 minutes ago, carl123 said:

if you create a new blank master, you can apply that with Migrate and it works. Then delete that blank master (optional)

Bear in mind Migrate only seems to work for Frame Content (e.g. Text Frames or Picture Frames that have had content added on the corresponding regular page) It does not work for stuff like shapes or images just placed on a Master page

Also applying a blank master does not work to maintain + release all initial master objects as expected or required: It migrates only certain edited objects, for instance the edited content in a text frame … but it does not migrate unchanged + several edited objects, for instance a text or rectangle that got their fill colour changed or got scaled or moved.

It's even worse: If I use "Edit Linked" + "Release" on any page then it executes this for this current page only and simply deletes the objects from other pages, leaving an empty master layer there.

So, an option to "Release" objects on several pages at once may be "just" a missing feature – but the result of "Edit Linked" + "Release" appears nasty and dangerous to me. – If it behaves the same in V2 it would deserve a bug report.

[Gianni Becattini]

Thanks for you replie3s, I agree that it does't work as expected. Eventually I modified each page.