Re: Opening and Editing Quark Binaries

I've attached a file I received with Quark 3.32, which has sample text complete with Quark Xpress tags. Perhaps rather than using PHP to edit a whole .qxd file, perhaps you can use it to help format some text to be imported into a template file. It's not a complete solution, but a part of one -- perhaps to be used in conhjuntion with AppleScript or Macros? (I think the later quark versions have macros)... Just to throw a complete spanner in the works, Adobe InDesign2.0 has a lot of XML capabilities, and much more integrated PDF capabilities than Quark... perhaps either an XML based solution, or a PDFLib based solution can be achieved? Considering InDesign is about 1/3rd the price of Quark, *maybe* you might want to consider other options aside from Quark. Justin French on 17/07/02 4:53 PM, Miguel Cruz (mnc@stoic.net) wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Simon Troup wrote: >> ... quark reports things like unexpected EOF (even though when I open >> the file in a text editor they have same number of lines and "look" >> identical), I've also tried a few things with the Mac resource forks to >> no avail. >> >> Has anyone tried something like this before? Does the fread() fwrite() >> change line endings from mac to unix or something? > > I am guessing the problem is that you're changing string lenghts and the > data structure used by QuarkXPress contains string length indicators. Once > you make a change to the length of a string without changing the length > indicator, it gets hopelessly confused. > > Frankly, I do not think this will be an easy project. The QuarkXPress data > file is a pretty complex beast. > > What are you actually trying to achieve? Perhaps there is another way. > > miguel >