A few years ago I was teaching an Adobe Photoshop class, and during my five-minute break, a colleague told me about a problem a client of his, a prepress house, was having. The client couldn’t print lines in QuarkXPress documents that were thinner than 0.25 point and was spending hours correcting every document. By the end of my break I had written the following script, saved it as an application, and handed it to him:
Tell application "QuarkXPress 4.01"
tell every page of document 1
set width of (every line box whose width < 0.25) to 0.25
end tell
end tell
The prepress shop was thrilled for the “utility” we had scrambled to program for them.
-- Hanaan Rosenthal
from 'Milano, Italy'
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