I have upgraded from QuarkXPress 6 to QuarkXPress 7 Passport.
I am now running an Applescript that I created to run on Quark 6, I'm now testing it in Quark 6. Most of my script runs fine, however I'm having problems with a cut and paste/placeholder section.
Part of my script creates a picture box, assign a background colour to it, then creates a text box on top and places a number in the centre. The script then selects and groups these boxes, cuts the group, and where the script has placed a placeholder in another text box, pastes the group.
He's the part of the code that creates the placeholder, creates the boxes, groups them, cuts them and pastes in Quark 6:
set Placeholder to "$$_1_$$"
make new text at end of text box ("Products Description") with properties {contents:Placeholder, size:6.5, font:"Helvetica Light", color:"Yellow"}
make picture box at beginning with properties {name:{"Cat Item Frame " & strCatItem}}
tell picture box ("Cat Item Frame " & strCatItem)
set bounds to {100, 100, 104, 105.06}
set runaround to none runaround
set color to "Wetside Blue 09-10"
set width of frame to 0.75
set color of frame to "Wetside Blue 09-10"
set corner radius to 0.5
set selected to true
end tell
make new text box at beginning with properties {name:{"Cat Item " & strCatItem}}
tell text box ("Cat Item " & strCatItem)
set bounds to {101.03, 100, 103.75, 105.06}
set runaround to none runaround
set vertical justification to top justified
set justification of paragraph 1 to centered
set selected to true
end tell
make new text at end of text box ("Cat Item " & strCatItem) with properties {contents:strCatItem, size:7.5, font:"Stymie Bd BT", color:"White"}
set grouped of group box 1 to true
set selected of group box 1 to true
cut
select (every text of text box ("Products Description") whose contents is Placeholder)
paste
set selected of group box 1 to false
set selected of text box ("Products Description") to false
Then in Quark 7:
set Placeholder to "$$_1_$$"
make new text at end of text box ("Products Description") with properties {contents:«class Plch», size:6.5, font:"Helvetica Light", color:"Yellow"}
make picture box at beginning with properties {name:{"Cat Item Frame " & strCatItem}}
tell picture box ("Cat Item Frame " & strCatItem)
set bounds to {100, 100, 104, 105.06}
set runaround to none runaround
set color to "Wetside Blue 09-10"
set width of frame to 0.75
set color of frame to "Wetside Blue 09-10"
set corner radius to 0.5
set selected to true
end tell
make new text box at beginning with properties {name:{"Cat Item " & strCatItem}}
tell text box ("Cat Item " & strCatItem)
set bounds to {101.03, 100, 103.75, 105.06}
set runaround to none runaround
set vertical justification to top justified
set justification of paragraph 1 to centered
set selected to true
end tell
make new text at end of text box ("Cat Item " & strCatItem) with properties {contents:strCatItem, size:7.5, font:"Stymie Bd BT", color:"White"}
set grouped of group box 1 to true
set selected of group box 1 to true
cut
select (every text of text box ("Products Description") whose contents is «class Plch»)
paste
set selected of group box 1 to false
set selected of text box ("Products Description") to false
I don't mind if someone gives me another way of scripting this process as opposed to giving me the updated version of using Placeholders in Quark 7.
All I need to achieve is getting the grouped picture and text box into another textbox.
Also to point out I do do this several times on one page.