Hi there,
I’ve put together a script to ‘downsave’ Quark 6 docs as Quark 5. The script runs as drag and drop, you drop the files on and off it goes. I’d written a more basic version of this script, that works, however there is no error handling.
I’ve then tried adding something that makes a note of any files that can’t be opened and writes that list to a LogFile.
The error I’m getting with the script is as follows:-
‘Can’t make file “QuarkXpress” of item 1 of {alias “G5MAC-9:Users:name:Desktop:NewDeal_cmyk_star_bg.eps”} into a string’
The file ‘NewDeal_cmyk_star_bg.eps’ is a test file.
I’ve a good idea why it’s doing this but not sure how I get round it.
I think the error is occuring near here:-
set fileName to (file name of theitem) as text
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.
Nick
Here’s the script:-
on open (someitems)
set LogFile to a reference to (path to desktop as string) & "errorList.txt"
set savedTextItemDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return}
set fileList to {}
tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
repeat with theitem in someitems
try
open theitem as alias
save document 1 in alias theitem version vers 50
close document 1
on error
set fileName to (file name of theitem) as text
set fileList to (fileList & fileName & return as text)
end try
end repeat
end tell
try
open for access file LogFile with write permission
set eof of file LogFile to 0
write fileList to file LogFile
close access file LogFile
on error errText number errNum
close access file LogFile
display dialog errText
end try
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to savedTextItemDelimiters
end open
