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Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)
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Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)


  • Subject: Getting data out of QuarkXpress (4.x)
  • From: Simon Forster <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 17:59:40 +0100

We've got some structured data which is being used to set a Quark doc. While I haven't really scripted Quark in anger, I doubt there will be a big problem getting the data into Quark (I can always go and buy a book or two :-). My concern is getting the data out again in a structured fashion. How do we maintain a sense of the data's original structure so that we can suck text out of Quark and drop it back into a database.

OK. In a little more detail:

We've got a database of circa 100 tours. These tours have a title, tour director, description, itinerary, cost, etc. When we're ready, we export this data to QuarkXpress for setting as a brochure. Once the brochure has been set, it goes through quite a thorough proofing<->correcting cycle. Nothing new here.

The tricky bit is that once the brochure has been signed off for printing, the Quark doc holds the most up-to-date, accurate data. We'd like to suck this data out and drop it back into the database replacing the old content.

The simple question is: how do we maintain some idea of data structure within Quark so that when we parse out the text collected from Quark we know what we've got? This must be a question addressed a 100 times before but I haven't found an answer despite quite some time spent searching and browsing various sites.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

Simon Forster
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