Re: Quark text search/replace query

Subject: Re: Quark text search/replace query

From: Nick Hearn <email@hidden>

Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:39:25 +0000

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Hi Jeff,

Thanks for your reply and for the code.

Since posting the query one or two other people helped me with the query, here's another example:-

tell application "QuarkXPress"

activate

tell current page of front document

set (contents of text of every text box where it = "xxx") to "yyy"

end tell

Thank you once again Jeff.

Regards,

Nick

On 1 Mar 2007, at 18:05, Jeff Jungblut wrote:

on 3/1/07 2:48 AM, Nick Hearn at email@hidden wrote:

Please can someone clarify this for me. I’ve been doing some automation with
Quark that involves the search/ replacing of text.
On the whole eveything has worked fine until I started another project the
other day.

This project involves several text replacements on the same page of what will
be a multi-page document. Everything started ok however now I’ve hit a slight
snag in that I’m now getting the following error:-

QuarkXpress got an error: Can’t set contents of every line of document whose
it = “xxx” to “yyy”

I’ve had a read through my Shirley Hopkins book to try and ascertain whether
or not I need to search a ‘line’, ‘paragraph’ or ‘story’ but having tried a
few variations this hasn’t helped.

Here's one example of how I've done it if it helps:

tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell story 1 of current box
copy (ASCII character 13) to (every text where it is (ASCII
character 7)) -- line break to paragraph break
copy (ASCII character 32) to (every text where it is (ASCII
character 16)) -- shift-space to normal space
copy (ASCII character 32) to (every text where it is (ASCII
character 202)) -- option-space to normal space
end tell
end tell

--
Jeff Jungblut
email@hidden
Senior Graphic Designer & Web Developer
Uptown Publications

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