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how to change/increase the widthsize of a selected text box in QXP6.5 using AS?

You can increase the size of the text box by using text box boundry property.
If you want to increase text box width, just increase X2 co-ordinate value. For text box height, increase Y2 co-ordinate value. Then update this boundry to the required text box.


Thanks,

Gopal

 Boxes have some useful properties that are sometimes hard to spot! You don't have to use the co-ordinates, you can just say:

 

set width of bounds of current box to "100 mm"

or 

set height of bounds of current box to "50 mm"

 Hi Emma

mm unit is working fine. but what about inches....?

 you have to 'escape' the inches sign. Try:

 

set width of bounds of current box to "8\""

Virtually all of the Quark/AppleScript questions you've asked in this forum (and most likely your future questions) could be answered with a copy of Shirley Hopkins' book "AppleScripting QuarkXpress": http://www.amazon.com/AppleScripting-QuarkXPress-Shirley-Hopkins/dp/0970726503/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258083644&sr=8-1 The book doesn't cover the latest OSX versions of Quark, but Quark scripting hasn't really changed all that much since v4.11. Hope that helps.

set width of bounds of current box to "8\""

set width of bounds of current box to pagewidth

In the above script, pagewidth is in inch value. How can i concatenate   \" with variable?

 Kindly help me.

 

 Prabu,

Quark and AppleScript also allow you to work with ABSOLUTE values which, simply put, will consider any supplied value that DOES NOT bear a unit sign (\", mm, cm, pt, etc.) as being in the same avlue as the current measuring system. So if your rulers are set in inches than set the width of a box to 2 means 2 inches.

In the following script I illustrate how you can subtract 1 inch of a box width than add 3 mm to it (all using ABSOLUTE values):

001   tell application "QuarkXPress Passport 7.x"
002      set DocName to name of document 1
003      tell document DocName
004         -- Every time you work with ABSOLUTE values, first start by making a copy fo your current unit system.
005         set {Old_Vert, Old_Hor} to {vertical measure, horizontal measure}
      
006         -- To SUBTRACT 1 inch from the box width
007         set {vertical measure, horizontal measure} to {inches, inches} -- set a new unit system
008         set BoxWidth to width of bounds of text box 1 as real --This will be in the unit value you set above
009         set width of bounds of text box 1 to (BoxWidth - 1)
      
010         -- To ADD 3 mm to the box resulting width
011         set {vertical measure, horizontal measure} to {millimeters, millimeters} -- set a new unit system
012         set BoxWidth to width of bounds of text box 1 as real --This will be in the unit value you set above
013         set width of bounds of text box 1 to (BoxWidth + 3)
      
014         -- Once everything is done revert your document to its original unit system
015         set {vertical measure, horizontal measure} to {Old_Vert, Old_Hor}
      
016      end tell
017   end tell

Notes: • The line numbers included with this script are there to aid future discussions. In order to use this script, you will have to strip all of them.

 

Notice that you do not need to calculate the equivalent of 3 mm in inches, Quark will do that to you.

HTH