Re: Quark 7 Kerning
Re: Quark 7 Kerning
- Subject: Re: Quark 7 Kerning
- From: Stan Cleveland <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:00:26 -0700
- Thread-topic: Quark 7 Kerning
On 10/12/09 3:11 PM, "Oakley Masten" wrote:
> Ok - Here I go again
>
> Is it possible to adjust kerning in Quark 7 using AppleScript.
>
> If so can I limit it to just a few characters vs the whole block of type?
> I couldn't find anything useful out there.
> The info I did find was not encouraging.
>
> Thanks in advance for any candle in the darkness on this.
Oakley, the following code works here with Quark 6.52:
tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell text box 1 of page 1 of document 1
set charCount to count characters
repeat with i from 1 to charCount
if character i is in {"i", "l", "w", "y"} then
set kern of character i to -5.0
end if
end repeat
set kern of characters 5 thru 20 to 10.0
end tell
end tell
The "i", "l", "w", "y" bit is pure nonsense, but demonstrates addressing one
character at a time based upon some criterion. You can also do a range of
characters, as shown.
HTH,
Stan C.
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