Re: Quark missing/modified graphics
Re: Quark missing/modified graphics
- Subject: Re: Quark missing/modified graphics
- From: MB <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:06:25 +0300
To update all pictures in your files you can use Auto Import flag of QXP. Just open document and set Auto Picture Import to yes then close file and
reopen it again and all you pictures will be automatically updated. Close with saving yes. But it doesn't work for missing pictures.
MB
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>>>We wrote an application (still a work in progress) that uses, among
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other
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things, an AppleScript and Quark to print PS files to a Helios print to
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disk
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volume.
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>>>One of them is what
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happens if a certain Quark document has missing/modified graphics in it.
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>>>I tried the Batch Update XTension from Meadows Information Systems
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I believe that you could script this entire operation pretty easily.
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Simply get the reference to all picture boxes, loop through checking each
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graphic, when you find one that modified, get the image properties (scale
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in quark, offset, angle, etc.) reimport the graphic, re-apply the
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properties.
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For missing graphics you could copy and paste the low-res image breaking
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the link to the graphic so it will print low-res with no dialog and/or
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specify in your script a list of folders to look for the graphics and/or
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specify in your script an alternate graphic to import when graphics are
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missing.