A general Quaestion for anyone,
I have very limited knowledge of applescript. I have been asked to upgrade an older applescript that when a folder with a Quark 4.0 document and images is dragged onto it, it opens the Quark document and saves the image usage info as a text file. It works on an iMac running OS 9.2. I need it to work on OSX and with Quark 5 & 6 versions. I have simply just tried to use the script in OSX, but it gets as far as looking for the image info, but craps out somewhere about there. I know I need training, but what I need to do, is it major? Am I in over my head? Should I just make it easy and get a Applescript guru to make the changes. I we talking 15 minutes of work or 15 days. Any comments back would be welcomed. I know, it is probably hard to say since you don’t know all the specifics, but let me know if I am in the ballpark or not. Thanks in advance to all of thoughs who answer. Cheers!
From what you describe, the script you need is not all that hard to make.
Let me know if I understand it correct.
The script accepts drag and drop, if a quark document is dropped onto it, the qxd document is opened and the script generates a text file with the info for the images used in the document.
here’s some pseudo code you can build on
set outputtext to “”
tell application “QuarkXPress Passport”
set docref to document 1
tell docref
set boxlist to the object reference of every picture box
end tell
repeat with aBox in boxlist
set img to the properties of image 1 of aBox
set thisImagePrefs to (file path of img)
set outputtext to outputtext & thisImagePrefs & return
end repeat
end tell
return outputtext
Feel free to contact me if needed, and good luck.