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How can i remove paste board items from the Q7.5 Document? Suggest me.

All paste board items have page number 2001 & 2002 given to them as the app only goes to 2000 pages. Here is a script that I made for doing this…

001    tell application "QuarkXPress"
002         tell document 1
003              set Page_Names to name of every page
004              if Page_Names does not contain "2002" or Page_Names does not contain "2002" then
005                   set Spread_Count to count of spreads
006                   repeat with i from 1 to Spread_Count
007                        tell spread i
008                             set Generic_Box_List to every generic box
009                             repeat with j from (count of Generic_Box_List) to 1 by -1
010                                  set Box_Page to name of page 1 of (item j of Generic_Box_List)
011                                  if Box_Page = "2002" or Box_Page = "2001" then
012                                       delete (item j of Generic_Box_List)
013                                  end if
014                             end repeat
015                        end tell
016                   end repeat
017              else
018                   display dialog "Can't do this…"
019              end if
020         end tell
021    end tell 

Thank you . My document having 50 to 100 pages only. Now how can i solve this problem?

Did you run the script? I probably did NOT explain very well but all pasteboard items that do NOT enter a page's bounds any where in a document belong to pages 2001 & 2002 it does NOT matter how many pages the document has to be able to run the script. Anything that enters a page anywhere belongs to that page by number. Just test it out for you self.

 WARNING!!!

Any left bleeding element will appear to be a paste board item.

The "location" of a box is determined by its Top Left corner

Are you sure I can NOT replicate this? This script has nothing to do with the objects TL position? Just name of page.

 Well, I did not test this lately but it used to be that the "Page" property of a box returned the page located at its top left coordinate.

I just tested this and it seems you are right, at least for pasteboard items. Try it with a box stradling two facing pages and you will see the behaviour I was talking about.

I will try that. Never use facing pages never have. possibly why I could not find any issues with the script.

Thank you very much larsen. The above script working superb.