Re: QuarkXPress: embedded text boxes
Re: QuarkXPress: embedded text boxes
- Subject: Re: QuarkXPress: embedded text boxes
- From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 07:06:49 +0100
On Tue, 06 Feb 2001, Michael Turner wrote:
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Has anyone attempted to extract the contents of embedded text boxes (in
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QuarkXPress)? I would like to extract the text of a selection regardless of
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if the text is in the original box of an anchored text. I extract the text
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fine from a selection but don't know how to grab the text of boxes that are
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anchored in the selection.
Michael,
here is a rough sketch of a quick idea for grabbing the text in anchored
boxes which are embedded in the selected text:
A new document is created, then a text box. The selection is copied
to this box. A repeat loop collects the stories from the text boxes,
except from the last one which is the container box.
The "|" separates the stories.
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tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
make document at beginning
tell document 1
make text box at beginning
end tell
copy selection of document 2 to before paragraph 1 of text box 1 of
document 1
set aText to ""
tell document 1
repeat with i from 1 to (count of text boxes) - 1
try
set aText to aText & story 1 of text box i & "|"
on error
end try
end repeat
end tell
close document 1 saving no
aText
end tell
-->"one|two|"
Give this a try -- but, please, begin with a small selection...
And, yeah... how do I insert the resulting snippets in the main string?
I think that it can be done. But this would be another story...
Regards,
Hans
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