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Re: Quark grouped items
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Re: Quark grouped items


  • Subject: Re: Quark grouped items
  • From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 21:49:44 +0200

On Tue, 05 Jun 2001, John Nestor wrote:

>(...) My problem is that one of the items named was not a graphic/text box,
>but a grouped item, which Quark considers a type of generic box.

John,

you've asked for "a smack in the head". Here it comes ;-):

While it's true that you can name a group of boxes -- grouped or not --
this name would be of no use: you can't address the group by this name.
The only solution I see is to name each member of the group with the
same name, e.g. "group_1". Then you can select them by script, address
the group as 'current box' and get the 'bounds':
---
tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
activate
set tool mode to drag mode
set selected of every generic box whose name is "group_1" to true
tell current box
set {y1, x1, y2, x2} to bounds as list
end tell
end tell
---

Regards,

Hans

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Hans Haesler | email@hidden


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