Quark Checks

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#1

Does anybody have any info on how I might be able to acomplish the following in Quark using applescript.
Checking for RGB pics. Checking for none backgrounds in pics. Text overflows And artifical fonts eg. using Bold instead of using the bold font. Suppressed images
If anybody has any code to do any of the following I would appreciate it.
Cheers

#2

I highly recommend Shirley Hopkins’ “AppleScripting Quark Xpress” book. It comes with a CD packed with example and ready-to-use code specifically for Quark.
It’s available at Amazon.com

#3

This is not the tightest code, but it should get you started:

tell application "QuarkXPressâ„¢ 4.11"
	tell document 1
		-- artifical fonts eg. using Bold instead of using the bold font.
		repeat with storyCount from 1 to count of stories
			tell story storyCount
				repeat with TSRcount from 1 to count of text style ranges
					set theStyle to style of text style range TSRcount
						if on styles of theStyle is not {plain} then
						--it's artificial
						end if
				end repeat
			end tell
		end repeat

		--Text overflows
		set textOFs to (uniqueID of every text box whose box overflows is true) as text

		-- picture stuff, note that image is 'image 1 of picture box x'
		repeat with thePic from 1 to (count of picture boxes)
			tell picture box thePic
				--Checking for none backgrounds in pics.
				if (image type of image 1 = unknown image) then -- it has no image
					if color = null then -- it has no background color
						if width of frame = 0 then -- it has no frame, so
						-- it's an 'invisible' picture box
						end if
					end if
				end if

				--Suppressed images
				if suppress printing is true then -- it's suppressed
				end if

				--Checking for RGB pics.
				if model of image 1 is RGB model then -- it's RGB
				end if
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

–tet

#4

Hi

I am trying to get the checking for RGB pics to work for me in Quark 6.5, but it does not work. The code is the following:


tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
	tell document 1
		-- picture stuff, note that image is 'image 1 of picture box x' 
		repeat with thePic from 1 to (count of picture boxes)
			tell picture box thePic
				--Checking for RGB pics. 
				if model of image 1 is RGB model then
					display dialog "There are RGB pics in the document." buttons {"OK. I will convert them!"} default button 1
				end if
			end tell
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

I am relativ new to scripting, and has borroed from the above mentioned script, so maybe I did something wrong.
If I could get it to work. Then I would also like to have the file names displayed of the RGB images.
:slight_smile:

But again I am not sure how.

I would appreciate all help.

Thanks.

Kind regards
Jimmy Høiby

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#5

i don’t have Quark at the moment, so i can’t test this, but try:

tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
	tell document 1
		set thePics to document 1's picture boxes
		-- picture stuff, note that image is 'image 1 of picture box x' 
		repeat with aPic in thePics from 1 to (count thePics)
			if model of aPic's image 1 is RGB model then
				set RGBex to true
			end if
		end repeat

		if RGBex is true then
			display dialog "There are RGB pics in the document." buttons {"OK. I will convert them!"} default button 1
		end if
	end tell
end tell
#6

Hi Alex

In the quoted line I get an error on the from statement and cant run or compile.

As I stated earlier, then my scripting skills are limited, and I do not know what to do.

Kind regards
Jimmy