Re: QuarkXPress text export (save) limited to 7 characters
Re: QuarkXPress text export (save) limited to 7 characters
- Subject: Re: QuarkXPress text export (save) limited to 7 characters
- From: Michael Turner <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 11:38:46 -0500
Hans,
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the first command doesn't compile, here. I guess that's because
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I don't have ScriptMasterXT.
I can confirm that "export" is a ScriptMasterXT command.
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The second command works fine, with 'fileName' set to
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(path to startup disk as string) & "123456789012345678901234567890"
Making this the preferred command. Does "save" support export other than
XTags? What is the syntax for save as ASCII text?
Quote from Quark dictionary:
Save
[as type class] -- the file type of the document in which to save the data
-- I hate these dictionaries. They tell you just enough to want to throw
them though a window. What are the valid "type class"?
Original Command: (saves as Xtags & works)
save story 1 of current box as "TEXT" in (fileName & "X")
This didn't work:
save story 1 of current box as "ASCII Text" in (fileName & "A")
Nor:
save story 1 of current box as "ASCII" in (fileName & "A")
Or:
save story 1 of current box as "TXT" in (fileName & "A")
[OK, that is known as thrashing.]
My error message was "Can't make some data into the expected type."
Thanks, Hans.
/Michael