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Re: Quark Annotate script problem with Leopard
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Re: Quark Annotate script problem with Leopard


  • Subject: Re: Quark Annotate script problem with Leopard
  • From: "Ripka, Herb" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 19:50:41 -0600
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: Quark Annotate script problem with Leopard

Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If I remove "color:yellow" the script creates text boxes with background color of None. Which works, but the text boxes are sometimes very hard to find.

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Try:
  color:"Yellow"

Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
AppleScript Pro Florida, April 2009 <http://scriptingmatters.com/aspro>

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What am I missing that this script doesn't work in Leopard?

This script creates a text box with the name of the picture used in the underlying picture box on a Quark document.

It errors out with the following line, saying that the variable yellow is not defined. How do you define a color (of a text box) in Quark?

make text box at beginning with properties {bounds:{y1, x1, y2, x2}, color:yellow, name:"annotate" & i, runaround:none runaround}

--Herbert Ripka
Greendale, WI

tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
        activate
        if (document 1 exists) then
                tell document 1
                        try
                                delete (every text box whose name contains "annotate")
                        end try
                        set {hm, vm} to {horizontal measure, vertical measure}
                        if hm is not points or vm is not points then
                                set properties to {horizontal measure:points, vertical measure:points}
                        end if
                        set selection to null
                        set view scale to fit page in window
                        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":"
                        repeat with p from 1 to count of pages
                                show page p
                                tell page p
                                        repeat with i from 1 to count of picture boxes
                                                set filePath to (file path of image 1 of picture box i) as Unicode text
                                                if filePath is not "null" and filePath is not "no disk file" then
                                                        set fileName to text item -1 of filePath
                                                        tell picture box i
                                                                set {sc1, sc2} to scale of image 1 as list
                                                                set {y1, x1} to origin of bounds as list
                                                        end tell
                                                        set y2 to ((y1 as real) + 14)
                                                        set x2 to ((x1 as real) + 185)
                                                        make text box at beginning with properties {bounds:{y1, x1, y2, x2}, color:yellow, name:"annotate" & i, runaround:none runaround}
                                                        tell story 1 of text box ("annotate" & i)
                                                                set properties to {font:"Monaco", size:11}
                                                                set contents to ("" & fileName & "  " & (sc1 as string))
                                                        end tell
                                                end if
                                        end repeat
                                end tell
                        end repeat
                        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
                        if hm is not points or vm is not points then
                                set properties to {horizontal measure:hm, vertical measure:vm}
                        end if
                end tell
                display dialog "Done." buttons "OK" default button 1 with icon 1 giving up after 1
        else
                display dialog "Open a document, please." buttons "OK" default button 1 with icon 2
        end if
end tell
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