I’d like to write a script for Quark 6.1 which makes easy search any picture by its name (or part of the name). But strange thing happen. I can’t coerce file path property of image to string to compare with target string. So I stop use this filter statement and rewrite code as a classic loop, but it’s much slower. Is there possibility to use coercion or compare in where, whose statements? Correct me, please!
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
tell document 1
set allPictures to every picture box whose ((file path of image 1) as text) contains "my favorite file.tif"
end tell
end tell
I also thought that it would be good idea to post all my code. It’s pretty slower but working. Waiting for you advises how to speed-up it! Thanks!
tell application "QuarkXPress Passport"
try
display dialog "Enter picture number..." default answer "" buttons {"Cancel", "OK"} default button 2
end try
set gotolabel to text returned of result
tell document 1
set allBoxes to every picture box
repeat with x from 1 to the count of allBoxes
set thisBox to item x of allBoxes
if file type of image 1 of thisBox is not null then
set testvar to file path of image 1 of thisBox as string
if testvar contains gotolabel then
set targetpage to page number of page 1 of thisBox
set current page to page targetpage
set current box to thisBox
display dialog "Done!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon 2
exit repeat
end if
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
This past week or two I’ve created a script to do a find/replace of images in Quark.
Rather than coercing the filepath to a ‘string’ I coerced it to ‘text’.
set fn to (file path of image 1) as text
And then checked if it was what I was looking for like this:-
if fn is equal to "PATH_TO_FILE:replace_this_file_name.eps" then
display dialog "found a file!"
end if
This worked for me, the only slight niggle I had was that once the script had replaced the pic I tried
applying a ‘scale’ and ‘offset’ but had one or two problems. In the end I looked for a box that had a
certain colour in it and put the picture in that. That worked ok. When I get chance I’ll go back and
solve the slight niggle.
Nick, if your slight niggle was getting the off set of an image then here’s a snippet.
set CurBox to object reference of current box
copy (coerce ((offset of image 1 of CurBox) as measurements point) to list) to {Xoffset, Yoffset}
set Xoffset to Xoffset as real
set Yoffset to Yoffset as real
try
set (offset of image 1 of CurBox) to {(Xoffset + 3), (Yoffset + 3)} end try
Thanks for the reply Mark.
I was setting the offsets like this:-
set image 1 to "PATH_TO_FILE:" & newFileName as alias
set offset of image 1 of current box to {"-0,872 mm", "-0,872 mm"}
set scale of image 1 of current box to {"102", "102"}
The find/replace worked fine, it was just the setting of the scale and offsets that failed???
Thanks for your answer but my question was different. How to use “file path” in where or whose filters. It’s much faster than run a loop or check conditions…
i said that just looking at your post without checking tut tut appears both work.
tell application "QuarkXPress"
set CurBox to object reference of current box
set offset of image 1 of current box to {"-0,872 mm", "-0,872 mm"}
set scale of image 1 of current box to {"102", "102"}
end tell
Hi Mark, thanks for the reply. I’ve got a script I can run through the script menu in Quark, that works fine with commas.
Think it might be to do with the fact the pic box isn’t selected.
