Checking info on a Quark Xpress document

Ridiculous? Are you kidding? This is the epitome of streamlined access of a document’s properties!!! What more could one ask for? I suppose all you want to do is ask for the document’s path and have it returned accurately! There is no fun in that, where is the challenge? :lol: Just kidding, of course. It is truly a hack around.

I have tried many many ways to get the path, and would have gone the “find” route, except there was too great a chance that I may pick up the wrong file. My situation is that all of our files are on a UNIX server, and there are as many 30 volumes mounted on any of the 130 desktop machines,on which we work about 2000 Quark pages a day. It was just too cumbersome to find, and I didn’t feel certain that I would be picking up the correct file or version of that file. Educated guessing along with a find would have made it better, but not good enough. If I was working with fewer variables, then I would have went with one of the locate methods. The best thing about these forums is you normally get several solutions to a problem. Some better than others, and some just better suited than others.

Oh, and I don’t want to take credit for the script itself. This was provided for me by Quark, and while I think it was a clever workaround, I really wish that “path of document” would just return the true path of the document. Maybe it will be addressed in a patch, which will probably break all of our code anyway.

Anyway, at least I have a solution for now, and can finally move forward with my current projects.

Happy Easter everybody!

My thanks to everyone who has sent in suggestions on this topic. I have now changed my script for the time being. It now makes an EPS in a static location, then saves a copy to folder on the users Desktop and finally tries to save the document normally. If the path of the file saved contains the users startup disk name, then a warning is given to the user prompting them to move the local copy. Messy, yes. But this is what Quark support suggested, although they wanted it done manually each time. At the rate Quark patches are released, I’d guess that this should be fixed in about 2 years time. [/RANT] :wink: