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Having an issue with Quark8, it seems that all of my Quark6 Templates that i had saved (100's of different sizes) when I open them up in version 8, the default colour is now Registration Black instead of regular "Black" , this has caused me some headaches with jobs that are 2 colour (say red and black), when they get sent for plates the registration is obviously coming out on the red plate !

Is there a way to set the default colour in quark to just 'Black' instead of registration ? ?

Thanks

 But Dave that will only change it for future documents - not solve this problem will it?

 Well seems like there is no quick fix.

Basically I am just working my way through each document (saved as a template) and then clicking on the 'Normal' section in the 'Style Sheet' Menu and clicking 'Edit' and then changing the default colour from Registration back to Black and then re-saving.

Little time consuming but as we use these Templates all the time I would rather go through and do them all at once rather than have to check each time I open one.

Cheers anyway guys.

 Er, yes, I was actually! Stuart, have you any experience of Applescript?

 If you paste the following into a blank applescript document, and save it as an application, you should be able to drop Quarks onto it and it will change the colour of the Normal paragraph style to Black.

Test it first on a couple of documents you've set up that don't matter!!

Just thought - it may be that what I should have done is changed the colour of the 'Normal' character style... Let me know if so, and I can change it (or you can have a go!)

If this is all gibberish, email me and I'll try and help. Bit busy with work at the moment but will try and reply!

OK, here's the script:

on open docList
     set x to 1
    
     repeat number of items in docList times
         
          tell application "QuarkXPress"
               open (item x of docList) use doc prefs yes remap fonts no
               tell document 1
                    set color of character attributes of style spec "Normal" to "Black"
                    close saving yes
               end tell
          end tell
         
         
          set x to x + 1
     end repeat
    
end open


 

Emma

 Phew. Day full of major stupidness so glad to have done something right. Thanks for virtual drink. Hic.