Batch convert Quark 6.5 files to PDFs

[batfastad]

Hi everyone

I'm a network admin for a small publishing company, and we've always wanted to be able to send previews of pages to clients before we publish.

Each issue of the magazine is stored in its own folder on our NAS, then each of the individual pages is in a sub-folder of that.

I'm guessing through Applescript I can tell it to loop through each of the subfolders and open the quark files - I don't think that bit is the problem.

But I've no idea where to start with getting Quark to produce low-res PDFs to a certain folder on our NAS shared files.

The problem is the subfolders and the quark files do not have a consistent naming procedure. Also there's usually multiple quark files within the sub folders.

I have no knowledge of applescript as all my work is done on PC, and none of our designers have any knowledge of applescript either.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks
Ben

 

[Alexis]

Is this any help:

http://bbs.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?pid=33797

Quark is fine for producing PDFs for print, but the files sizes are always huge. You're best of exporting files as PS files and PDFing them with Distiller if you need to email them.

 

[batfastad]

Hi
Sorry for the late reply - didn't get a notification.

I did look through that topic but couldn't even get that example script to work.
I'm continuing to look though.

It seems the Quark message boards are pretty inactive unfortunately.

Thanks
Ben