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In all previous versions of Quark, the below code outputs an eps with a bleed. In quark 6 this fails. Anyone able to script a save as eps with a bleed in quark 6?

[code:1:bd27d236dc]tell application "QuarkXPress™"
activate
set theDestination to "HD:Users:firewire:test.eps"
save page 1 of document 1 in file theDestination EPS format Mac black and white EPS data binary EPS OPI include images bleed "0.125" with include preview
end tell
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Firewire - Try this and let me know if it does what you were hoping.

[code:1:cca178fde5]
path to desktop from user domain
set theHD to result as string

set thePath to theHD & "test.eps" as string

tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
tell front document
tell page 1
save in thePath as file type EPS format Mac black and white EPS data binary EPS OPI include images bleed "0.125"
end tell
end tell
end tell
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This didn't work for me. I guess i should clarify that the problem is that it saves the eps file but it saves it without the bleed. Did it work for you? Looking at the code changes you made, they are essentially just cosmetic changes as 'tell page 1' and 'page 1 of' are interchangeable. Worth a shot though.

I've noticed the addition of a custom bleeds extension in quark 6 (and 5) and suspect that it needs to be used in this case. I cannot for the life of me get the syntax down, and I can't find any examples online.

Anyone had any luck scripting Custom bleeds? In the dictionary it says "addressed as ‘custom bleeds setup 1’" but I can't get it to work.

Yes, it works for me. I tried it with the custom bleeds extension active and it also works when I de-activate it.

For the most part the changes I made were cosmetic, except for 1 key part. After your file path it needs to say

as file type

your original script just goes right into the eps format.

How could I have missed that. It works! Thanks a bunch. (I disabled the custom bleed extension)

FYI, I also ran into EPS files not being saved with a specified bleed, but in my case the added code "as file type" made no difference.

As firewire ended up doing, I disabled the Custom Bleeds XTension and then my old code worked fine:

[code:1:10caaad299] tell application "QuarkXPress"
set theBleed to 15 as point units
with timeout of 600 seconds
save page 1 of document 1 in file EPSfilepath EPS format Mac color EPS data binary EPS scale 100 bleed theBleed OPI include images
end timeout
end tell
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