Re: Quark 4 & 5 Xpress tags
Re: Quark 4 & 5 Xpress tags
- Subject: Re: Quark 4 & 5 Xpress tags
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:14:25 +1000
On 9/4/02 9:58 AM +1000, Giuliano Gavazzi, email@hidden, wrote:
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At 9:03 am +1000 2002/04/09, Shane Stanley wrote:
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> On 9/4/02 4:58 AM +1000, Giuliano Gavazzi, email@hidden, wrote:
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>> I would like to copy the text in a text box including the formatting.
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>> copy text of (text box i) to myText
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>> will only copy the (ASCII) text.
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> Use move or duplicate:
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> duplicate story 1 of text box 1 to after story 1 of text box 2
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thanks, but I should have been more clear: my boxes can be linked.
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Copying the story will copy all the text from the box down to the
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chain of linked boxes. Similarly copying the box to a new document
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will also copy the text flowing into to subsequent boxes.
The point is to use duplicate rather than copy -- you can change the targets
to what you want. For example:
tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
tell document 1
duplicate text of text box 1 to after character -1 of text box 2
end tell
end tell
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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