Re: Quark 6 affects on AppleScript
Re: Quark 6 affects on AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Quark 6 affects on AppleScript
- From: Ethan Rips <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 13:51:44 -0500
Marc
Since several (mis)behaviors are described in the thread, I'll try to
address the ones I know about.
1. Having Quark 6 open still seems to cause a reversal of the horizontal &
vertical bounds of Tex-Edit Plus documents on my Mac (G4/800GHz/80GB HD/OS
10.2.8/1 GB RAM). This occurred with Tex-Edit Plus 4.5.1 & now with 4.5.2.
2. Attempts to access text properties in Quark 5 or 6 result in weird
characters in chevrons as mentioned below. Ray Robertson has provided a
workaround in a thread on macscripter.net from which I'll quote:
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The coercion bugs scripting Quark from OSX to Classic,
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which were fixed in Quark 6/Jaguar, are now back with
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Quark 6/Panther. As before, the workaround is to
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explicitly use Quark's own "coerce" command.
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Code:
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tell application "QuarkXPress"
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tell front document
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set boxBounds to bounds of current box as list
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-->>{+data FXVM00F067C5;, +data FXHM00480000;,
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+data FXVM0190A01A;, +data FXHM00EFEDC8;}
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set boxTop to top of bounds of current box
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-->>+data FXVM00F067C5;
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set boxTop to top of bounds as real
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-->>errors
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set boxTop to top of bounds as point units
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-->>errors
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--examples of what works
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set boxTop to coerce boxTop to real
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-->>240.405349731445
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set boxTop to coerce boxTop to string
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-->>"240.405 pt"
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end tell
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end tell
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Quark is aware of the problem, which has broken some of
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the bundled scripts.
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I'm not sure how to answer your question as to the seriousness of these
bugs I imagine that depends on what any given scripter is trying to do.
There's a workaround for the second, but I've seen no information whatever
about the first. I find them annoying, but not show stoppers.
[Going off topic for a moment] Far more serious in my mind, as a manager of
typesetters, is another Quark 6 bug which causes a document to jump out of
view when a user switches between 100% & 200% views. For typesetters, that
is a show stopper.
HTH,
Ethan
On 11/4/03 1:17 PM, "Marc Rubin" <email@hidden> wrote:
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this astonishing thread just went away.
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i believe this is the last post.
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does this behavior exist?
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if so, why isn't it a serious problem,
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and what's to do about it?
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"Ethan Rips"
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applescript-users-admin@lists Subject: Re: Quark
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6 affects on AppleScript
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10/27/2003 09:50 AM
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On 10/26/03 12:39 PM, Buzz Hill <email@hidden> wrote:
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> This is a simple script to tile my windows 2-up vertically in the Finder
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[SNIP]
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> It works correctly, but when I have Quark 6 running, the bounds
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[SNIP]
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> This suggest to me, that Quark 6 is altering the System at some low
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> I am wondering if others are experiencing this problem.
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Buzz<
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I'm not seeing this in Quark (although I am getting weird characters in
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chevrons when trying to access text properties via a script), but I've
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noticed that having Quark 6 open seems to cause documents in Tex-Edit Plus
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to swap their horizontal & vertical bounds. More fun...
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So adding another query to yours, has anyone seen this effect on Tex-Edit
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Plus (or other apps)?
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Thanks.
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Ethan
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