Re: Rule below in QuarkXPress glitch - (bug?)
Re: Rule below in QuarkXPress glitch - (bug?)
- Subject: Re: Rule below in QuarkXPress glitch - (bug?)
- From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 18:24:27 +0200
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, David Lloyd wrote:
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> you _must_ loop through every paragraph and -- worse -- you must
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> *select* each paragraph in turn. Or at least character 1.
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Ouch, dang, this is no good. Another way perhaps would be to export every
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story as tags, then parse the tags files for this info... This seems to work
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- takes a while still - but at least it's quicker than looping thru every
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paragraph...
David,
I've written a script which does the following:
- make a (temporary) document with the same page size
- delete all user-defined colors
- dump all boxes to this new document
- get the list of colors
- delete the temp document
This is very fast.
Cheers,
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Hans Haesler <email@hidden>