how to delete master pages in Quark 6?

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#1

I’m trying to delete a master page in Quark, using this code:

tell application “QuarkXPress”
activate
delete spread 2 of master document 1
end tell

It just errors out, with this message:

QuarkXPress got an error: spread 2 of master document 1 doesn’t understand the delete message.

I had this working yesterday, maybe with different code, but i set it aside without saving changes when i went to do somethig else. Anyone know what syntax to use for deleting a spread?

#2

you can only delete master pages not spreads, so find the page of spread

tell application "QuarkXPress"
    activate
    tell master document 1
        delete page 1
        --or
        delete (every page whose name contains "A-Master A")
    end tell
end tell

The funny thing is that you can tell it to delete page 3 and it deletes page 5. There something strange about how it refers to pages from names

HAVE FUN

Bevan www.applescript.co.nz

#3

Just let you know, when you delete the page is the spread number not the page number. So spread 2 delete page 2. You can’t go pages contain name “A - Master A” as it get the non spread page number and delete the wrong page. Even if you tell spread delete page 1 and 2 it also get the non spread page number and deletes the wrong page.

When you delete a page it deletes the spread (2 pages)

Best way is, delete in reverse order

tell application "QuarkXPress"
	activate
	tell master document 1
		show
		set MastersAvailable to name of every spread
		set ToDelete to {"A-Master A", "C-Master C"}
		repeat with i from (count of MastersAvailable) to 1 by -1
			if ToDelete contains name of spread i then
				delete page i
			end if
		end repeat
	end tell
end tell

Have fun

Bevan www.applescript.co.nz