le 2001/09/18 10:00, Bernie Wylde à bernie@... a écrit :

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm looking at creating an app which will set up various settings, in print
> dialog of QuarkXPress documents, ready for print.
> Has anyone any knowledge of where this info is stored in the doc?
> 
> I can do most of it with AppleScript but the doc needs to be open in Quark.
> 
> TIA
> Bernie
> 
> ** Jonathan, this could be one for you as you used to be in the printing
> industry.

i once tried to do an app that would parse QXP docs. the first version
[fontLoupe] exists, but i had to stop as the xpress format was too hard to
suss out. it appeared to store data in blobs, but i couldn't find any table
[offset of index] that allowed me to make sense of the blobs. and i spent
quite a few weeks making hypotheses and trying to parse the data.

of course, i could have signed on as QXP developer and probably found the
info in the SDKs, but it was an expensive move at the time [probably still
is] and the investment wasn't work the return.

as QXP is extremely scriptable then i would suggest following that way, you
can use recent threads on this list to launch the doc, interrogate it and
recover the info.

hth
:-j