Re: Save quark doc works and doesn't?
Re: Save quark doc works and doesn't?
- Subject: Re: Save quark doc works and doesn't?
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:12:19 -0400
- Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous
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Can anyone help,
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A very simple applescript to save a quark document. This works fine on my
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mac (OS9.1, Quark 4.11, Applescript Z1-1.6)
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This is not working on someone elses machine howver who have the same setup
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(not sure yet if the applescript version is the same). The hard drive path
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is correct for their machine as well. It comes up with an error about making
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data into the correct type on the save line. Any reasons why this would
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occur, could it be they are using a different version of applescript??
That's possible. I have no problem with my system (which matches
yours). It may be that some other version of Xpress doesn't expect a
string path, but must have a file or alias reference (which is
problematic if you're saving in a new location -- you'd have to get the
Finder to create a dummy file first).
It's also possible that an old version of the OS or of AS doesn't work
quite right, but I'm thinking the most important piece of the puzzle
here is QuarkXpress, because it's what's trying to do the save, so for
some reason it doesn't like your string path.
Another possibility is that the disk you're trying to save to *looks*
the same, but includes some funky non-printing character or a trailing
space, etc. That should give you a "Disk not found" error though,
rather than a conversion.
Is this the exact script you're running or a simplification? The
problem could be what you're feeding Xpress in the save line. Have you
tested this exact script on your other user's machine?
If you have (or you do now and it still gags), see if you can get them
to do a complete Apple System Profiler report and look at their versions
of everything, especially Xpress. Also any XT they may be running that
could conceivably attach to the save command.
Michael
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Michael Sullivan
Business Card Express of CT Thermographers to the Trade
Cheshire, CT email@hidden
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