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Re: Scripting QuarkXPress from OS X
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Re: Scripting QuarkXPress from OS X


  • Subject: Re: Scripting QuarkXPress from OS X
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:32:04 +1100

On 14/1/03 4:16 PM +1000, Scott P. Richert, email@hidden, wrote:

> The following script runs fine when opened in Classic, but when run
> natively in OS X, it either times out during the print command or hangs
> until I break out of it:
>
> set myFilePath to (path to desktop from user domain as string)
> set myFileName to myFilePath & "0000_0001.ps"
> tell application "QuarkXPress"
> activate
> print page 1 of front document PostScript file (myFileName)
> end tell
>
> Other commands ("make new document", for instance) work just fine, so
> it seems to have something to do with printing.

Scripting QuarkXPress under 10.2.x is broken (it's probably the activate
triggering the problem in this case). The problem is believed to be in
classic itself, so it may affect other Classic apps as well.

--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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