At 7:20 pm +0800 26/1/05, Craig Ringer wrote: > > We have a dozen or so Applescripts that perform a range of tasks for >> us in Quark 3 running under Classic. I'd dearly like to dump it (and >> Classic) for Scribus, but need to get my head around scripting. > >Ooh! Is there any chance you can post descriptions of what they do (on- >list, or private if you prefer)? What's really needed now is more real- >world use cases, exactly like what you describe.
Attached (plain text - you'd need Quark and Filemaker running to compile it). It also calls some routines from 'houses.lib' but I don't have a text version of that here and don't fancy firing everything up just to make one, esp since you probably don't need it. It basically creates a 42 page magazine from a blank Quark template. There are 14 branches, each chooses 2/3/4 pages worth of property to go in the magazine. The script does the following: a) query Filemaker for the list of branch codes (one per office) b) loop through branches, grab double box properties then singles box properties c) place double boxes in 'middle' of each page, according to a pre-determined 'best appearance' lookup table. Boxes appear to be octagonal (no, really), but are actually composed of two irregular hexagons abutted to each other, sitting atop a black octogon. They're 1pt smaller than the octagon, so it looks like a single box with two halves d) pull picture from Finder, resize. Add text from Filemaker The branches stopped using Filemaker ages ago, now everything's run via MySQL online. We export from MySQL to tab-separated, and then back into Filemaker to run the script. Presumably with a scripter setup we could grab directly from the MySQL database on the web? John. -- ------------------------------------------------- T:01274 581519 www.kershaw.org M:07944 755613 E:john at kershaw.org | skype:johnmkershaw AIM:johnkershaw | Y!/MSN:john_m_kershaw -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: %GH 2.1.1.txt Type: application/applefile Size: 1221 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050126/b4e3eae0/attachment.bin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: GH 2.1.1.txt Type: application/octet-stream Size: 23686 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050126/b4e3eae0/attachment.obj
