Quark place image script woes
Quark place image script woes
- Subject: Quark place image script woes
- From: "Dr Digby L. James" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 00:11:09 +0100
Title: Quark place image script woes
I posted a problem with this
script back in October 2003. I've returned to it now and found that it
still won't work, but I can now see, in part, what the problem is. It
runs as far as the line to import the image file, but then asks for
the location of the file.
Here is the
script:
--Script to import images into picture boxes in a
predefined picture box
--Document already has
necessary number of pages
--Each page based on a master
page with picture box on
--Still to do: get number of
files and script Quark to create appropriate number of
pages
--
set thepath
to choose folder with
prompt "Choose folder
containing TIFFs"
--
--Produces dialogue box to
select folder
--
set file_list
to (list folder
thepath without invisibles)
--
--without invisibles removes
.DS Store from list
--Creates a list containing all
files in folder
--To do: check files are all
images - with.tiff extension - and rewrite list if
necessary
--end
tell application
"Extra Suites"
set
list_of_items to ES sort strings file_list
end tell
--
--Counts number of items in
list
--
set Path_to_the_image to
""
--
--
tell application
"QuarkXPress"
activate
repeat
with i from
1 to NumberOfPages
-- repeat
with i from 1 to 10
set Path_to_the_image to
thepath & item
i of list_of_items
as text
--
--Combines path name
and file name
--
try
--set image 1 of
picture box 1 of page i of document 1 to alias
Path_to_the_image
on error
set image 1
of picture box 1
of page i
of document 1
to ¬
(choose file with
prompt "Please select the
file " & (Path_to_the_image))
end try
end
repeat
end tell
Following the event log,
everything works as expected until the line:
set Path_to_the_image to
thepath & item
i of list_of_items
as text
Somehow an "s" is
added before the filename. So it is trying to place sIMG_1429 instead
of IMG_1429. I have checked (using Display Dialog) that
"thepath" and "item i of list_of_items" are
correct, so it is this line where the error occurs - but I can't see
why. Can anyone understand this?
If I replace the line
:
set thepath to choose folder
with prompt "Choose folder containing
TIFFs"
with:
set thepath
to "Penny:Documents:Work
in Progress :Calamy :1727 Volume I:TIFFs:"
(i.e. a real path string) it works.
Puzzling.
This is running with Quark 6.5 under OS 10.3.9.
--
_________________
Dr Digby L. James
Quinta Press
http://www.quintapress.com
Meadow View
Weston Rhyn
Oswestry
Shropshire
England
SY10 7RN
Phone (44)(0)1691 778659
Mobile (44) (0)7970 678144
Fax (44)(0)1691 777638
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