2016

INTRODUCTION
This guide provides information about Apple
®
events scripting with
Q
uarkXPress
®
.
Apple event properties that are specific to East Asian features
are identified as such.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
This document is for people who are ready to create scripts that communicate
with QuarkXPress. If you need assistance writing or debugging scripts, consult
the documentation provided with your scripting application and the scripting
forums on the online services. Quark also provides additional online scripting
support (Forum:
www.quark.com/service/forums/, and e-mail:
[e-mail]).
To learn more about Apple events scripting, you may want to purchase a
third-party book such as The
AppleScript Handbook, AppleScript for
Dummies,
or AppleScripting QuarkXPress. Many other third-party books
exist, some of which include scripting software. You can also visit
www.apple.com to find electronic resources and URLs for Apple events script-
ing.
WHAT YOU NEED
To write scripts, you need the following:
• Mac OS
®
X or later.
• A scripting application such as AppleScript
®
.
• The documentation (included with your scripting application) that teaches
you the scripting language. You should familiarize yourself with the scripting
language before attempting to write scripts for QuarkXPress.
• A basic understanding of programming (including concepts such as loops,
conditional processing, if-then-else constructs, and variables) gained through
writing HyperTalk scripts or macros, or working in programming languages
such as C, BASIC, Java
™
, or Pascal.
To run AppleScript scripts that communicate with QuarkXPress, you must
have Script XTensions
®
software loaded. For information about this software,
refer to
A Guide to QuarkXPress 2016 .
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