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RE: Tiger broke the print command in quarkXpress - who else has noticed this
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RE: Tiger broke the print command in quarkXpress - who else has noticed this


  • Subject: RE: Tiger broke the print command in quarkXpress - who else has noticed this
  • From: Gaëtan Trudel <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:47:05 -0500

Thanks Mark for answering,
 
We sometimes use pdf export to get out of a problem with quark ps, I did not try to automate that. in commercial prepress we still prefer postscript to pdf export but your idea deserves a try.
 
I filed a bug report to apple a month ago about this and the case is still open with a "serious bug" status.
The fact tha apple does not point finger at Quark could mean that they are on something, but they are not telling me anything, or... this case is at the far bottom of their priority list...
 
Do APPLE have somebody lurking into this list ? ( I would appreciate a lot that they chime in )
 
I'll see now with Quark hoping to have an answer before... next year...   :-(
 
Will keep the list informed of any development.
 
Gaetan Trudel
(514) 279-4571
Prepress Technical Adviser
 
Transcontinental Litho Acme
85 de Castelnau St. W.
Montreal, QC Canada
H2R 2W3


From: Mark Butler [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: 2 décembre 2005 00:58
To: Gaetan Trudel
Cc: 'AppleScript User's List'
Subject: Re: Tiger broke the print command in quarkXpress - who else has notice this

Hi Gaetan,

Yes Tiger breaks scripting of the print dialog in Quark... There is no good work around....

One suggestion which I liked quite a bit till (dont remember who posted it or how much I changed it but it is in the Quark forums) I ran into some other Quark color bugs with placed eps files is this... You can set in the preferences to use a post processor to create the pdf file this eliminates any potential problems with jaws creating a pdf..

---UI export ps... Be sure to set PDF preferences ONLY because Tiger breaks print function in Quark (or Quark breaks Tiger whatever....)
on UI_export()
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
activate
end tell
try
tell application "System Events"
tell process "QuarkXPress"
tell menu bar 1
tell menu bar item "File"
tell menu "File"
tell menu item "Export"
tell menu "Export"
click menu item "Layout as PDF..."
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
end tell
delay 1
tell window "Export as PDF"
keystroke (ASCII character 13)
end tell
end tell
end tell
on error
display dialog "UI not working"
end try
end UI_export

I did however run into some problems with older Illustrator eps files that caused them to lose some color information and havent revisited yet... Still waiting for Quark 7 to arrive...

Mark





On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Gaetan Trudel wrote:

Hi,

This was working perfect 10.3.9

tell application "QuarkXPress 6"
activate
tell document 1
print page "1"
end tell
end tell

Completely broken in 10.4.2 and 10.4.3

The quark application quits on it.
who else has noticed this ?

Could somebody try the script above and confirm the bug ? (thank you)

Trying to use the UI does not work either. The button flashes but the action
is not performed.
(script down below)

(PS: Please do not suggest that I buy a quark extension, I wrote an
efficient script that has worked for years exactly to avoid this).

Thank you,

Gaetan Trudel
(514) 279-4571
Prepress Technical Adviser

Transcontinental Litho Acme
85 de Castelnau St. W.
Montreal, QC Canada
H2R 2W3

--------- the UI script
tell application "QuarkXPress 6"
activate
set nSecs to 1
set pgeName to "1"
--set psName to
":Users:trudelg:Desktop:pageGenTempFolder:pageFilesFolder:12345_1.ps"
set errorTrue to false
tell application "System Events"
UI elements enabled
tell process "QuarkXPress"
tell menu bar 1
try
with timeout of nSecs seconds
click menu item "Print..."
of menu "File"
end timeout
on error err1
set errorTrue to true
end try
end tell
keystroke "1" as Unicode text
keystroke tab as Unicode text
keystroke pgeName as Unicode text
tell button "Printer..." of window 1 to perform
action "AXPress"
end tell
end tell
end tell

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