Re: Delete Quark colors
Re: Delete Quark colors
- Subject: Re: Delete Quark colors
- From: gturnquist <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:16:54 -0600
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Subject: Delete Color from Quark
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:40:10 -0500
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I am trying to put together a script that will replace certain specific
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colors in a Quark 4.04 document with other specific colors. I can create new
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colors in Quark well enough, but I am having no luck at deleting colors. Can
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anyone out there start me in the right direction?
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Here is what I have so far:
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set DeadName to "zColorBlue"
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tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress(tm)"
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set SpecList to (get name of every color spec)
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if DeadName is in SpecList then
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delete color spec DeadName
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else
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display dialog "The color" & " " & "\"" & DeadName & "\"" & " " &
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"is,
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not in this Doc's Color Table."
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end if
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end tell
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What seems to be happening is that zColorBlue is being deleted, however
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Quark is erroring out. The following is from the Event Log:
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tell application "QuarkXPress(tm)"
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get name of every color spec of document 1
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delete color spec "zColorBlue" of document 1
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--> QuarkXPress(tm) got an error: Read-only property cannot be
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changed.
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I am completely lost as to where the error is coming from. Does anyone out
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there have any suggestions?
tell application "QuarkXPress 4.1"
tell document 1
delete color spec named "PANTONE 111 CVP"
end tell
end tell
This worked without erroring out.