QuarkXPress Scripting

JavaScript examples that may not be a part of the released version of QuarkXPress.

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Creates a caption box containing a caption generated out of the IPTC information of the image

This script creates a caption box for the selected box

This script sorts all the paragraphs of a selected text box

Finds all phone numbers and formats them as per user provided format

Adds "Thousand separators" to numbers

Finds and replaces all instances an entered string to the target string entered with attribute

This script searches for hyperlink text in the layout, and converts it to QuarkXPress hyperlinks

Find/Change for H&J

A JavaScript that applies a number of columns and gutter width to the selected text box

This script finds the master page and creates as many pages with that master page as the number of records in a VALID csv file and creates documents by importing csv data. Each page of the document contains data corresponding to a tuple in the csv file.

This script finds a string in a text box, based on a RegEx pattern, and replaced them with the provided string (regex). This is often also called "GREP search".

This JavaScript copies a layer and all components on this layer to a new layout

This JavaScript creates a grid of boxes from an existing box