Version 3.1 - Updated
15 December 2001
XPress|Scripts 3.0 is a collection of thirty AppleScripts
for QuarkXPress. Version 3.0 contains many new scripts and updates
some of the scripts from version 2.0 (of 1995) to them bring up
to date with QuarkXPress 4.11. This version now uses the Dialog
Director osax instead of the old Dialog Runner osax which is no
longer compatible today.
Here is a partial listing of XPress|Scripts 3.0:
XS
ImageTag ImageTag places non-printing tags over each
image in your document as an aid to image identification.
XS
FontBook Creates a library of font samples using QuarkXPress.
Offers two layout options: a basic six fonts per page or one font
per page showing fonts in sample texts in different sizes.
XS Slice Slices up a selected
box or boxes on the page into multiple boxes while retaining the
original boxes properties. As a bonus, if the box contains an image,
that image is sliced up along with the box. There are options to
set the number of columns and rows, and gutter distance.
XS
Matrix Lays out a grid of picture boxes or text boxes
with the option of placing guides around the boxes. Options include
the number of box columns and rows, gutter distance, and turning
guides on and off.
XS
Unlink Unlink all linked text boxes in a document, while
retaining the text flow. This is useful if you need to copy and
paste text boxes or copy whole pages to a new document.
XS
Save as EPS's Choose all pages or a range of page numbers
of a document and save those pages as EPS's.
XS
Version ID A drag and drop applet which appends a suffix
to a QuarkXPress document (without having to open it) indicating
its version format, i.e. "Brochure.3", or "Calendar.4"
XS
Multi Guides A script which allows entering values for
a series of guides, horizontal and vertical. Also can accept input
values such as 10+5 or 3*5.
XS
TidyUp Tidyup takes a file where the owner was not aware
of the existence of the measurements palette when creating the document.
So, TidyUp rounds up haphazard measurement values such as 23.789
mm to 24.0 mm.