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CONCEPTS
The lines above are similar to creating a text box with the rectangular Text
Box tool, and then sizing and positioning it using the Measurements
palette.
LOCATE AND IMPORT A TEXT FILE
tell text box 2
try
set story 1 to alias (thepath & "ASB Text")
on error
set story 1 to (choose file with prompt "Please select the file
\"ASB Text\"" of type {"TEXT"})
end try
end tell
CONCEPTS
The statements above are similar to locating and importing a text file in the
Get Text dialog box.
• The
try statement looks for the “ASB Text” file in the location previously
defined by
thepath (see the “Establish the path” portion near the beginning
of the “Breakdown of the Layout Construction Script” section of this document).
If the file exists in this location, the
set event imports the “ASB Text” file,
replacing the story in the text box.
• If “ASB Text” does not exist in the location defined by thepath , the script will
continue with the
on error statement. (The file will only be located by thepath
if your hard drive and folders are named the same as those defined in thepath .)
• The first parameter is a message to the user shown at the bottom of the dialog
box, “Open the file named ‘ASB Text.’” The second parameter stores the path
to the text file in an address — this path is used to import the text file. The third
parameter is the signature for a text file (file type). Once the user locates the text
file and clicks OK, the set event imports the text.
• If you want to open a QuarkXPress layout using the
getFileDialog script,
the signature would be “XDOC.” This limits the displayed files to QuarkXPress
layouts. This is an optional parameter.
FORMAT THE BODY COPY
set size of story 1 to 11
set leading of story 1 to 43
set justification of story 1 to fully justified
set font of story 1 to "Times"
end tell
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