Does anyone know of a way of forcing Quark XPress 5 to (re-)size a textbox according to the length of the text to be inserted?
I suppose that this can be done by counting the characters in the string, which is then divided by a fixed width to return a variable for the length…but there must be an easier way to do this?
Any ideas?
Thx.
P
Can’t help you with Quark 5 but this works with Quark 6 & OS 10.3.6:
tell application "QuarkXPress"
tell document 1
set ThisBox to current box --"Current box" is whatever box is currently selected.
if box overflows of ThisBox is true then
set BottomOfBox to bottom of bounds of ThisBox as number
repeat until box overflows of ThisBox is false
set BottomOfBox to BottomOfBox + 0.01
set bottom of bounds of ThisBox to BottomOfBox
end repeat
end if
end tell
end tell
That seems like a very good solution
the only problem i could forsee is if the copy is greater than what will fit on the page size
so he may need to escape that possible error
unless you know the copy wont flow that long
I understand that this solution works, however, I get "Can’t make “data FXVM00810000” into a number when I try to use the script. Does anyone have a solution for this?
Interestingly, if I set BottomOfBox as string, I get the same error, but if I set BottomOfBox as the button returned of a dialogue, it is a number with mm.
Is there any way to link two text boxes with AS?
i am not to experienced with scripting quark
first of all are the boxes on the same page that you want to link?
if not
you could use auto text box then a new page would be created if the first one overflows
you would automatically be on the next page
also you may be able to use some of the code in the scripts supplied with quark in the folder
Macintosh HD:Applications:QuarkXPress 6.0:Scripts:Stories:Link Selected Text Boxes…