Re: Suggestions for improvements to scripting QuarkXPress ...
Re: Suggestions for improvements to scripting QuarkXPress ...
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for improvements to scripting QuarkXPress ...
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:04:50 +0200
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Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 14:26:54 +1000
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for improvements to scripting QuarkXPress ...
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From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
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To: AS lists <email@hidden>
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On 4/7/01 12:21 PM +1000, harry brindley, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I'm meeting with development folk from Quark and am looking for
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> _specific_ suggestions for them to improve QuarkXPress's
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> scriptability.
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Fix the bugs. They already know what most of them are; some have been there
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since the beginning.
Search-replace functions, text manipulation functions (capitalize, lower
case, highlight); I never understood the existence of a "ghost command":
select.
I suggest a new command & its constants:
batch print --list of alias
with settings --print setup record
destroy dialogs --boolean
report --boolean
And, as a novelty, Quark may be *recordable*, too.
JJ