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Re: Save Quark 6 files as Quark 5
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Re: Save Quark 6 files as Quark 5


  • Subject: Re: Save Quark 6 files as Quark 5
  • From: Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:54:04 +0100

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, William Hopkins wrote:

>I've been trying to use this script to determine
>wether files dropped into a folder are Quark 6 files
>if so, the files are opened in Quark and they are
>supposed to be saved to Quark 5. But I can't get the
>files to save after I open them. Any suggetions?

William,

there are several problems with your code. The major one is:
you don't provide a name for the document to save. I guess that
'PSTempOut' is a folder.

You don't need to use 'as file specification'.

We've been told that it's better to use "System Events"
for getting the processes. Nevertheless, the list of the
names of the processes contains the item "QuarkXPress"
(and not 'application "QuarkXPress"').

Your code has two 'tell "XPress"' blocks inside of the
'tell app "Finder"' block. Some people will say that this
doesn't matter. But I don't like it. I think it is better
to use 'info for' for getting the file type.

This works for me:
---
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items

 tell application "System Events"
  set procList to name of every process
 end tell
 if "QuarkXPress" is not in procList then
  tell application "QuarkXPress"
   activate
  end tell
 end if

 repeat with x in added_items
  set FileType to file type of (info for file (x as string))
  if FileType = "XPRJ" then
   tell application "QuarkXPress"
    activate
    open x
    set docName to name of document 1
    set filePath to "Design06X:Users:Admin:Desktop:PSTempOut:docName"
    save document 1 in filePath version vers 50
    close document 1
   end tell
  else
   display dialog "Wrong file type"
  end if
 end repeat

end adding folder items to
---
Regards,
Hans

---
Hans Haesler <email@hidden>


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