Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:05:59 +1100
On 9/12/00 5:50 PM +1000, Greg Reyna, email@hidden, wrote:
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I'd like to know why I have to pay $300 just to be able to write Apple Scripts
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for Photoshop.
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Because a third-party company has written a plug-in that enables this
facility, and writing software costs money.
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Shouldn't scriptability be a normal function of a well made program?
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Some of us say yes; obviously, others say no.
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Once a command or function is created to operate by menu or button within a
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program, why isn't the Apple Script access to that command or function simply
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made available by the developers?
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Because it involves a considerable amount of work on the developers' part,
and the PhotoShop team seem to have other priorities.
And, I suspect, because although we all grumble about it, not enough of us
bother to go the Adobe web site requests section and actually ask for it.
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Is Photoshop scriptable without any additional software purchase?
You can run actions and open and close files, but that's about it.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden