Snow Leopard/QuarkXpress Issue
Snow Leopard/QuarkXpress Issue
- Subject: Snow Leopard/QuarkXpress Issue
- From: Jeff Walters <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:13:54 -0700
- Thread-topic: Snow Leopard/QuarkXpress Issue
Title: Snow Leopard/QuarkXpress Issue
I am having an issue with AppleScripts that I am migrating from 10.5 to 10.6. The scripts work fine on 10.5. But under Snow Leopard, the code is causing an error. The issue is occurring in Quark 8.1.6.2.
The following script will display the error "QuarkXPress got an error: Can't make some data into the expected type." on the open file line.
tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
set fileList to choose file with prompt "Choose the file(s) to process. [Cmd or Shift + click to choose more than one file]" of type {"XPRJ"} with multiple selections allowed without invisibles
set fileList to fileList as list
set fileList to my sortList(fileList)
end tell
repeat with oneFile in fileList
tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
open file oneFile use doc prefs yes remap fonts no do auto picture import no
close front document saving no
end tell
end repeat
on sortList(the_list)
set old_delims to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {ASCII character 10} -- always a linefeed
set list_string to (the_list as string)
set new_string to do shell script "echo " & quoted form of list_string & " | sort -f"
set new_list to (paragraphs of new_string)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to old_delims
return new_list
end sortList
I have tried resaving the script on a machine running 10.6 with both a Save As and a copy and paste to a blank document and still get the same results.
Oddly, some of the 10.6 machines within my department are able to run this script but not consistently. There is a mix of 10.6.4 and 10.6.6 installed at the moment. But I don't see any consistency as to which machines are able to run this script without error and which ones are.
Any suggestions? Anyone else experiencing this sort of issue?
Jeff Walters
Pearson Assessments
Software Developer
Electronic Solutions Specialist
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