Hi there,
does anyone know how I can get the complete width of multiple selected text boxes in Quark XPress?
I need this to create a new box wich has the width and height wich all selected boxes have together.
Imion
It’s just “bounds of current box” when you have multiple selections.
Here is a script I made to take the width and height of everything you have selected and change your page size to that size (it assumes your objects are at x:0 y:0 already). I’m sure you can pull out what you need from here. I always have trouble getting measurements from Quark in that they come out with a huge number of decimal places. That’s why there is the weird code to strip it down to three decimal places. There’s probably a better way to do it…
tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell front document
set horizontal measure to inches
set vertical measure to inches
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "."
try --This is a test to make sure you actually have something selelcted
set testing to properties of current box
on error
return
end try
set BoxWidthTemp to ((get width of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BWCount to the count of characters in the second text item of BoxWidthTemp
if BWCount is greater than 3 then
set BWCount to 3
end if
set BoxWidth to ((the first text item of BoxWidthTemp as string) & "." & (text 1 thru BWCount of the second text item of BoxWidthTemp as string)) as number
set BoxHeightTemp to ((get height of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BHCount to the count of characters in the second text item of BoxHeightTemp
if BHCount is greater than 3 then
set BHCount to 3
end if
set BoxHeight to ((the first text item of BoxHeightTemp as string) & "." & (text 1 thru BHCount of the second text item of BoxHeightTemp as string)) as number
set page width to BoxWidth
set page height to BoxHeight
end tell
end tell
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Thank you for your answer,
you helped me so much!
But I have one more question.
This is my script now:
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
tell front document
try --This is a test to make sure you actually have something selelcted
set testing to properties of current box
on error
return
end try
-- Breite un d Höhe der ausgewählten Rahmen ermitteln
set BoxWidth to ((get width of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BoxHeight to ((get height of bounds of current box) as real) as string
-- Den neuen Rahmen erstellen
tell current page
make new text box with properties {bounds:{"0 mm", "0 mm", BoxHeight, BoxWidth}, runaround:none runaround, vertical justification:centered, color:null} at beginning
end tell
end tell
end tell
And it works fine. But I need to get the x and y measure from the very first text box. I thougt I can get it by using
set theSelected to every text box whose selected is true
set theBox to item 1 of theSelected
tell theBox
set BoxA to ((item 1 of theBox) as point units) as real
set BoxB to ((item 2 of theBox) as point units) as real
end tell
From another Script, but this dosn’t work. May you help me one more time?
I get an error when trying to run this script:
It says that the new box could not be created, but not why.
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
tell front document
try --This is a test to make sure you actually have something selelcted
set testing to properties of current box
on error
return
end try
set BoxWidth to ((get width of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BoxHeight to ((get height of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BoxLeft to ((get left of bounds of current box) as real) as string
set BoxTop to ((get top of bounds of current box) as real) as string
tell current page
try
set NewFrame to make new picture box with properties {bounds:{BoxTop, BoxLeft, BoxHeight, BoxWidth}, runaround:none runaround, vertical justification:centered, color:null}
on error
display dialog "No Box created"
end try
end tell
end tell
end tell
What could be wrong?
Imion, give this a try. Not sure where you picked up “vertical justification:centered” from? but it isn’t a property of a picture box.
tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
if not (exists document 1) then error "No document is open."
if not (exists current box) or box type of current box is not group box type then error "No group of boxes is selected"
set selectedBoxes to object reference of current box
set groupBounds to bounds of selectedBoxes as list
tell document 1
tell current page
try
set NewFrame to make new picture box at beginning with properties ¬
{bounds:groupBounds, runaround:none, color:null}
on error
display dialog "No Box created"
end try
end tell
end tell
end tell
there was a “runaround” too many I hadn’t spotted.
You are right. I had taken this line from a script where a text box was handled and have forgotten to delete this part.
Thank you very much for your help.