Re: Importing Images into Quark box?
Re: Importing Images into Quark box?
- Subject: Re: Importing Images into Quark box?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 20:59:39 EST
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>In a message dated 11/25/2001 Carlos Cavazos writes:
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>I would like to know if there is a way (using ordinary AS) to import a tif,
eps, etc... from a folder into a QuarkXpress picture box. Here is my goal:
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>Say I have five pages in a Quark document. Each of those pages has a full
size picture box per page. Now, I have a folder with five tiff or eps
images. With some kind of loop, I would like to automatically insert to
first image into the picture box of my first page. Then I would like to
insert the second image from the same folder into the picture box of the
second page and so on.
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>I do have a script that I have been working on that will automatically, with
the choose folder command, count the number of items and make a that many
pages with a picture box per page on a Quark document. I'm also using Dialog
Director to input the size of the page document as well. The only thing I'm
messing on this script is what I have mentioned above. I would appreciate
any comments.
Carlos:
All you need is:
a = an alias for your image file (not just the name but the full path).
b = an object reference for a picture box in quark document
then you tell quark to "set image 1 of b to a"
You don't say how you decide which image to put onto each page. We use a
system where a script on one Mac sends an EPS to a network folder, using a
naming convention that includes the "name" of the Quark page. Another script
on another Mac watches that folder and reads the name to determine where to
put the EPS.
hope this helps
Robert Kyle
Star Tribune
Minneapolis