RE: Quark Scripting
RE: Quark Scripting
- Subject: RE: Quark Scripting
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 11:34:56 -0400
Ok here goes...
Big Picture:
I have lots of Quark Documents. Thousands of pages of product catalogs and I
need to extract text from them. For each product in the catalog there can be
as many as two linked text boxes. I need to get this text data into a flat
text document. However I need to store the data extracted from the text
boxes in such a way that I can sort it in the order it appeared on the Quark
page. I do this for single text boxes by getting the coordinates for the
bounds of each box.
The Problem:
When I have an item that has two linked text boxes the only way I can seem
to extract this linked data as one unit is to refer to it as a story.
Refering to the data as a story seems to close me off from accesing any data
about the text boxes the story is in. Even worse is if I refer directly to
the text boxes and extract the data. The linked boxes create duplicate lines
where quark can't decide if a line is in the first text box or the second.
If anyone could help that would be great.
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From: Wadson, David
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Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2003 10:46 AM
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To: 'Sprague, Graham'
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Subject: RE: Quark Scripting
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There's a number of people on the list that have done lots of Quark
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scripting. Toss the problem out and you'll probably get more help than you
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expect...
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> From: Sprague, Graham
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2003 10:22 AM
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> To: Applescript Users List
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> Subject: Quark Scripting
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> > Anyone here really good with scripting QuarkXpress. I have a very
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sticky
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> > problem I would like to discuss at length.
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