Re: Question on AppleScript w/ QuarkXPress 4
Re: Question on AppleScript w/ QuarkXPress 4
- Subject: Re: Question on AppleScript w/ QuarkXPress 4
- From: Autocat <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:37:30 +0200
Hello Hans,
Thanks ever so much for such a definitive answer!
Cheers;
Laurent
On 13 avr. 05, at 09:32, Hans Haesler wrote:
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Autocat wrote:
I am trying to get a script to work with XPress 4.11
The problem is that the line
set thePictures to uniqueID of every picture box of page 1
returns incorrect lists, for example:
{-2.147483645E+9, -2.147483644E+9, -2.147483642E+9, -2.147483641E+9,
-2.14748364E+9, -2.147483638E+9, -2.147483636E+9, -2.147483632E+9,
-2.147483631E+9, -2.14748363E+9, -2.147483629E+9, -2.147483628E+9}
If I then try to do something like
set thePictPath to get file path of image 1 of picture box id
theID
Then I get an error, unsurprisingly.
This is when I use existing documents (I don't know which version of
XPress was used to create them).
If I create a new document then everything is fine.
Any ideas , has anyone come across that one before ?
Laurent,
there has been a similar report more than five years ago (QXP 4.1).
And you can reproduce it right now when you create a new document.
Condition is that you _save_ the document _before_ making any boxes.
Then create some boxes and you've got the negative numbers.
To address boxes with such uniqueIDs you can try this:
---
set thePictPath to get file path of image 1 of picture box id (theID
as string)
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The number, e.g. -2.147483645E+9, is converted to "-2.147483645E+9"
and this can be used to address the box.
BTW 1, if you get only this uniqueID directly from the box and convert
it to a string, the result will be "-2147483645".
BTW 2, to get the version of XPress documents: Try my droplet which
you'll find here <http://www.fachhefte.ch> / Click the link
"AppleScripts",
open the folders "mac_os_9_e" and "general" and select the file
"Which_XPressVersion_9.sit".
The French version is here: <http://www.bulletin-technique.ch> /
Link "AppleScripts", folders "mac_os_9_f" and "general" and the file
is called "Quelle_version_XPress_9.sit".
Regards,
Hans
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Hans Haesler <email@hidden>
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