Pages + AppleScript: How to add a page with a specific page template

Question

I have created a Pages document with a template, and I want to add a page to the document using one of the pages in the document's template.

Something like:

tell thisDocument to make new page with properties { template:"Image with Text" }

I've searched the iWork Library and don't see where it is possible.

This is the AppleScript equivalent of "Add Page" that has a drop down of pages in the template:

Answer 1

You can use a simple AppleScript which creates a new Pages document with the specified template, adds a new page to the document and then saves the document as a template with the specified name. Here it is:

tell application "Pages"
    activate
    set thisDocument to make new document with properties {document template:template "Template Name"}
    tell thisDocument
        make new page with properties {template name:"Image with Text"}
    end tell
    set templatePath to (path to desktop as text) & "Template Name.pages"
    save thisDocument in file templatePath as "template"
end tell

Make sure to replace the two "Template Name" 's with the wanted name of the template, replace "Image with Text" with the name of the page template you want to add to your document, and replace "path to desktop as text" to the location where you want to save the template in your desktop.

Note: Saving a document as a template will overwrite any existing template with the same name, so if you want to replace the previous template, you might want to use the same name.