QuarkXPress 6.1 sizing
QuarkXPress 6.1 sizing
- Subject: QuarkXPress 6.1 sizing
- From: Steve Roy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:47:46 -0500
Hi,
I'm getting some weird results when trying to set the size of a QuarkXPress 6.1
ad from AppleScript.
tell application "QuarkXPress"
set theVal to 72
set page width of document 1 to (coerce theVal to point units)
set page depth of document 1 to (coerce theVal to point units)
end tell
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There seems to be a minimum value that
can be passed. That's fine, but the value of this minimum is not always the
same, and what QuarkXPress does in reaction to me passing a value smaller than
the minimum is also not consistent.
Here are some numbers I gathered through experimentation.
Brand new documents
- Minimum possible width: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts width)
- Minimum possible height: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts height)
(All new documents are consistent in these minimum values, that's good.)
Existing document converted from QuarkXPress 5.0
- Minimum possible width: 73 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
- Minimum possible height: 36 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
Tried the same document later:
- Minimum possible width: 201 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
- Minimum possible height: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts height)
(Why has it changed from the previous time? I don't know.)
Another existing document converted from QuarkXPress 5.0
- Minimum possible width: 201 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
- Minimum possible height: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts height)
(At least, this is consistent with the previous document. Is there something to
be deduced from that? I don't know.)
New document from a QuarkXPress 5.0 template and converted
- Minimum possible width: 251 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
- Minimum possible height: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts height)
Another new document from a QuarkXPress 5.0 template and converted
- Minimum possible width: 251 pts (smaller values result in nothing happening)
- Minimum possible height: 8 pts (smaller values result in 288 pts height)
(From this, it looks like all new documents from template should be consistent.
Why is it different than existing documents? I don't know.)
Is anyone else seeing this problem? Or is anyone able to find some logic in it?
Steve
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