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QUARKXPRESS SUITE
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Events: The QuarkXPress Suite includes two events: coerce and do updates.
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Objects: The QuarkXPress Suite objects are specific to the application: character
spec, clipping path, color spec, color system, contour, default document, delimit
item, delimit table, generic box, graphic box, group box, h and j spec, horizontal
guide, image, line box, layout space, master layout space, page, picture box,
project, runaround path, shape path, spread, style spec, text box, text style range,
user box, vertex, vertical guide, and xtension.
QUARKXPRESS ANCILLARY OBJECTS
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Events: The QuarkXPress Ancillary Objects Suite does not include any events.
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Objects: The QuarkXPress Ancillary Objects Suite contains objects that are used
for inheritance, returned as records, or data types: base class, box properties,
blend record, character properties, containing box properties, fixed point, fixed
rectangle, font record, frame record, justification record, non containing box
properties, open type style record, paragraph properties, print setup record, rule
record, tab record, text container properties, text path properties, text properties,
and text and paragraph properties.
QUARKXPRESS TERMS AND OBJECTS
The “Definitions and Examples” section of this document provides definitions
and sample syntax for each event that QuarkXPress supports. The AppleScript
dictionary defines each event and object that QuarkXPress supports. The follow-
ing objects in the hierarchy are not familiar QuarkXPress terms. Their properties
are defined fully in the AppleScript dictionary.
• Color systems: the color models that QuarkXPress supports.
• Contour: a continuous path. Shape paths, clipping paths, and runaround paths
are made up of contours. For instance, if you had a Bézier element in the shape
of a bagel, you would have two contours: one contour for the outside shape and
one contour for the inside shape.
• Default document: the object that contains all default layout settings
including colors, style sheets, hyphenation and justification specifications
(H&Js), layout settings specified in the New Layout dialog box, and all
layout-related preferences.
• Delimit item: each character has an associated delimit item that QuarkXPress
uses to determine whether a character should be part of a word.
• Delimit table: a container for 256 “delimit items.”
• Generic box: any type of box on a page. Use generic box if you want to change
the properties of a box in a specific location, regardless of what type of box it is.
• Group box: An item that consists of a group of boxes. A group box can be
either a “true” group, for example, boxes that have been grouped, or it can
be a selection of multiple boxes.
SCRIPTING OVERVIEW
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A GUIDE TO APPLE EVENTS SCRIPTING