[softwarelist] OPro master pages and DDL import

right.  me again.  sorry to try everybody's patience yet again, but i 
do appreciate being able to draw upon the collective experience -- it 
gets lonely working as a one-man show without the buzz of an office 
around, where there would be colleagues to ask.  (though, from 
experience, my questions are too arcane and draw only blank looks.)


on the advice of David Pilling and couple of others here, i am 
exporting my albatross book as DDL, intending to re-import it to a new 
document, in the hope that the process will tidy up certain oddities.

the book has 12 OPro chapters, containing a total of around 300 pages 
and lots of pictures embedded in the text.

in the new document i have defined a master page.  it is "demy" size 
rather than the A5 of the old document, and i have defined headers and 
footers using the OPro system rather than as the previous separate 
frames.  plus i did left-and-right master pages rather than the 
previous single.  (demy, by the way, is a traditional book format, 
216×138mm, which is slightly taller and slightly narrower than A5.)

i was hoping that when i import the DDL file this übermaster page will 
be replicated 12 times to serve all chapters.

so i saved out the old document as DDL: 8 megabytes.
   dropping this DDL file into the blank frame of the open new 
document produces a bit of disk activity and ... nothing.
   dropping this DDL file onto OPro on the iconbar produces ... a new 
document that looks exactly like my old document, in A5 format.


so i saved out each chapter of the old document as separate DDL filea.
   drop the first of these into the blank frame of the new document, 
then create a new chapter based on it, drop the next DDL into it, etc 
-- seemed to work well ... until ... i get to the big chapters 
containing all the embedded pictures.  each of these gives an error: 
"Unknown object at 235" (different figure for each file).


so what's the correct path to follow?  any advice, please?
i was hoping not to have to twiddle 12 separate master pages, which 
are, after all, meant to be the same format for the whole book.

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