Re: Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)
Re: Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)
- Subject: Re: Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)
- From: "William M. Smith" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 20:03:57 -0500
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The tricky bit is that once the brochure has been signed off for
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printing, the Quark doc holds the most up-to-date, accurate data. We'd
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like to suck this data out and drop it back into the database replacing
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the old content.
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The simple question is: how do we maintain some idea of data structure
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within Quark so that when we parse out the text collected from Quark we
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know what we've got?
Hi Simon!
If your data is structured then you can structure your pages by creating
master pages with the necessary text and picture boxes. Using Applescript,
you can assign each box a name unique to the page, such as "ItemNumber",
"Description", "Price", "MainPicture", "InsetPicture", etc.
Create your pages using the master pages and then when you're ready to pull
information out, you can simply refer to items using syntax like:
image 1 of picture box "MainPicture" of page 1 of document 1
My Quark scripting is a little rusty, but the above line should give you an
idea.
Hope this helps! bill
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