Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: Leonard Rosenthol <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 14:27:17 -0500
At 10:33 AM -0800 12/12/00, email@hidden wrote:
Three words: another dissatisfied user.
Dissatisfaction is one thing, spreading disinformation is
QUITE another! If you want to rant about problems & issues, be my
guest. But do NOT, as part of that, make up completely wrong
information.
> Not only did Adobe think about AppleScript during the
development of the Photoshop Actions architecture, but if you
actually LOOKED inside of a PS Action, you'd find that it uses the
EXACTLY SAME technology as AppleScript (event classes, ID's, lists,
etc.)
Oh, I see, they decided not to provide that support outside of Photoshop
for the benefit of their users.
As I said later in the message, Adobe made a business
decision about where to allocate their engineering resources - and
since a 3rd party was willing & able to fill the gap for the SMALL
number of users that needed/wanted this feature, they made that
choice.
>> (c) would rather be lazy and let third
parties do all the Applescript work.
> This is actually Cal's fault more than Adobe's.
So Cal thwarted built-in Applescript support in one of the most popular
graphics applications for Mac so that he would be able to continue charging
$300+ for his third-party app.
Yup!
> Actually, I would argue that Cal & Eric did a BETTER job than
Adobe's engineers would have done at the time since they had MUCH
more experience with AS/scripting than almost anyone working on
Photoshop or related technologies did.
How would you know?
Because I was an engineer at Adobe at the time and one of the
key people involved in scripting related issues within the company...
Meanwhile, people are forced to fork over big money for support that
arguably could be included with the product.
Could be included, yes. However, the fact that a 3rd party
solution exists means that they don't have to focus on it themselves.
For example, how long has Photoshop not had good clipping/masking
support, and relied on 3rd party plug-ins? Most of it's life! So
enough users told Adobe that it was important and they finally added
it. Scripting is just another feature on the list.
Oddly enough, I suspect that if Cal dropped Photoscripter,
Adobe would add scripting to Photoshop ;).
Leonard
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