I am begining with Applescript, and, as you can imagine, I have some problems I had not expected
My script generates different pages of a document separately : I mean, each couple of page is writed in a different qsd file. At the end of the script, I want to merge all these file into one. Do you know a way to do it ?
I have another little problem : while executing the script, I put a picture into a picture box. But later I need to delete this picture keeping the picture box safe, but I don’t manage to do it. So if you have some ideas it would be greatly appreciated =)
This should give you a few pointers in removing pictures from boxes. Not sure that you can do the join documents IMO it would be better have your script just make the one file.
tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
try
-- This section will ensure that a document is open, before proceeding
if (exists document 1) is false then error "No document is open."
tell document 1
-- This 'try' will make a list of the selected picture boxes, and ensure that at least 1 box is selected
try
set tool mode to contents mode
set Pict_Box_List to the uniqueID of every picture box whose selected is true
if (length of Pict_Box_List) < 1 then error
on error
error "At least one picture box must be selected."
end try
repeat with i from 1 to length of Pict_Box_List
tell picture box id (item i of Pict_Box_List)
if file path of image 1 is not null then
try
delete image 1
end try
end if
end tell
end repeat
beep 2
end tell
on error errmsg number errnum
if errnum is not equal to -128 then
beep
display dialog errmsg & " [" & errnum & "]" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon stop
end if
return
end try
end tell
