Re: Finding the hidden characters in Quark via AppleScript
Re: Finding the hidden characters in Quark via AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Finding the hidden characters in Quark via AppleScript
- From: Dana Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 12:42:54 -0500
Chris,
I don't think this is
exactly what you're looking for, and you probably already know this, but the following snippet finds out whether or not a text box overflows...of course, it also resizes accordingly until 'box overflows is false'. Perhaps it could be modified to work...
if box overflows then
repeat until box overflows is false or i ≥ 756 -- max text box size of quark template
set i to i + 10
set properties of it to {bounds:{"35.995 pt", "36 pt", i, "576 pt"}}
end repeat
end if
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On Jan 7, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Christopher MJ Tangora wrote:
Hi all,
I am working on a script to identify text box overflows on linked text boxes. Each box should have a hard return at the end of it (on a mac it is the enter key, according to Quark Style Sheets it is a </c>). However, whenever I get the last character of a text box, if it is a hard return it comes back as "". If it has an overflow it comes back as anything but "". The problem comes up when I try to compare the result (char) to "". It just doesn't work. I'm hoping someone can fill me in on how to make the hard return / carriage return readable in Applescript from Quark. According to the code it should read out "Freakn' bout time!" when the carriage return is the last character, but it doesn't. Anybody know what I am missing?
Thanks!
Chris Tangora
386.681.2748
Production Services
Daytona Beach News-Journal Corporation
Daytona Beach, Florida 32117 - USA
code:
tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell document 1
set char to character -1 of current box
end tell
log char
if char is "" then
display dialog "freakin' bout time!"
end if
end tell
Event Log
tell application "QuarkXPress"
get last character of current box of document 1
" "
(* *)
end tell
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