I would not look at the Binary files, but would either work with AppleScript
(Quark is very, very scriptable), or work out a process using the Quark Tag
export format.
This is what I have used in the past when scripting Quark export and import.
It is pretty simple markup - sort of XML before there was XML if I remember
correctly, I would look at that first?
> From: "Mark J. Luetzelschwab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:09:05 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Massive Search and Replace in Binary Files
>
> My guess is that it is doable...you will have to be careful about the
> actual character numbers as ones beyond 128 are not necessarily the same
> for every font. You will need to check that for each font that is used in
> the document (Quark should tell you that).
>
> Also, you need to determine where the text is stored in the file (i.e. some
> formats put text between ( )) Open the file in BBEdit to get a look at it
> (don't save it as text, though..that can cause problems ;)
>
> Read the Metacard reference carefully on the read/write functions to
> determine how you should be reading the files and if you will need to strip
> characters out when writing back to binary (i.e. returns) When you
> read/write all in binary (i.e. copying a file from a server), its
> straightforward, but I'm not sure about the binary/text/binary conversions.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -ml
>
>
>
>
> Mark J. Luetzelschwab [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> University of Texas at Austin
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