Quark 5 or 6: page of box

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#1

Hello,

Has anybody an idea how to get the page on which a box is placed ?

Regards
Thomas

#2

Hi :slight_smile:
Here a small suggestion (with XPress 3):

tell application "QuarkXPress 3"
	tell document 1
		show selection
		return page number of current page
	end tell
end tell

:wink:

#3

Thanks,
but I am looking for something like

tell document 1
get page number of picture box 1
end tell

Do you have also suggestion for this problem ?

Regards,

Thomas

#4

I do not know if there is a simpler means, but I think that it is necessary to display the page containing the picture or text box to know its number…
Here an example:

tell application "QuarkXPress 3"
	tell document 1
		show picture box 1
		return page number of current page
	end tell
end tell

:wink:

#5

Thomas,

It’s not obvious, unfortunately. But this is it…

–for page number
index of page 1 of picture box 1

–for name (defined by section start)
name of page 1 of picture box 1

Ray

#6

Yes Ray, quite simply (brilliant :D)

#7

Thanks, I would have never thought of referencing it that way. Now if I could just find a link to/from an anchored box and the text box that contains it.

#8

Thomas

#9

Jerome,

I can’t recall if there is a direct way to do this (I think not). However, if you get the text of a story, the anchored boxes actually show up as special characters. I believe you can then get the offset of the surrounding character, and then refer to “text box 1 of character xxxx” or something like that.

As for the links, it is reasonably easy to get the links of anchored picture boxes with a filtered reference to “file path of image 1 of every picture box whose anchored is true”. Since the layering order cannot change, I believe you can then expect the order to be consistent with the characters found in the story.

Ray