Re: Scripting Quark 5.01 from Jaguar
Re: Scripting Quark 5.01 from Jaguar
- Subject: Re: Scripting Quark 5.01 from Jaguar
- From: Dave Glass <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 13:29:29 -0700
On 9/5/02 12:06, "Kevin Dolan" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Hello everyone,
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I am trying to create a script that runs in OS X (10.2) and accesses
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"Classic" applications. The script is started by dropping a folder into a
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folder which has an "on adding folder items" action attached. I've found a
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way of dealing with the fonts for the classic environment but in getting the
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properties from a Quark document I receive what appears to be class
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problems. For example, if I say:
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tell document 1
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set docWidth to {page width}
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end tell
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it will return: {<<data FXHM03060000>>}
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Does anyone know what the problem may be or is anyone trying to script
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classic apps in X?
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I believe you have to explicitly coerce these measurements. From an earlier
post by Shane Stanley:
QuarkXPress's built-in coercions don't work properly in OS X; you have to
explicitly coerce using the coerce command:
set x to bounds
set x to coerce x to list
set theTop to coerce (item 1 of x) to real
Dave Glass
email@hidden
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