Re: more news from the front
Re: more news from the front
- Subject: Re: more news from the front
- From: graphics <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:29:01 -0500
William,
Thanks for slugging that out - I will be needing something like that in the
near future!
Congrats, best wishes and happy holidays y'all!
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Curtis J Siters
Subway Stamp Shop
2121 Beale Avenue, Altoona, PA 166001
814.946.1000
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From: "Wallace, William" <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 13:03:48 -0600
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To: "'email@hidden'"<email@hidden>
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Subject: RE: more news from the front
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Actually the real culprit turned out to be something else. This works fine:
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tell application "QuarkXPress(tm) 4.11"
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activate
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set sourceDoc to choose file with prompt "Select a file to
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PostScript..."
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open sourceDoc use doc prefs yes remap fonts no do auto picture
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import no
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tell document 1
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set docName to name
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print PostScript file ("Startup:Desktop Folder:" & docName &
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".ps")
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end tell
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close document 1 saving no
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end tell
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This, however, does not:
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tell application "QuarkXPress(tm) 4.11"
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activate
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set sourceDoc to choose file with prompt "Select a file to
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PostScript..."
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open sourceDoc use doc prefs yes remap fonts no do auto picture
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import no
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tell document 1
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set docName to name
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set vertical measure to inches --THIS IS THE CULPRIT
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print PostScript file ("Startup:Desktop Folder:" & docName &
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".ps")
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end tell
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close document 1 saving no
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end tell
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No matter what I try (putting extra commands in before the close command,
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breaking the code up into separate blocks and wrapping them with ignoring...
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statements, etc.) it will always crash Quark. Even if I remove the close
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command altogether and then try to close the document manually after the
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script has finished executing.
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...very annoying
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-whw
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> Subject: RE: Can't close doc in Quark
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> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:21:45 -0600
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> Okay, didn't take long for it to break again (in fact, the one time
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it
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> worked was some kind of fluke, or I did something different without
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> realizing it). Anyway, I've found that if I move the close command
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to a
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> separate tell block and wrap that second tell block in an ignoring
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> application responses block, it seems to work fine. Phew! Thanks
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for
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> playing. You've been a great crowd. I'll be here all week. Don't
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forget to
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> tip your bartender and waitresses.
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> ;-}
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> -whw
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