Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: JollyRoger <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:41:10 -0600
on 12/13/2000 7:20 AM, Leonard Rosenthol at email@hidden wrote:
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> In fact, quite to the contrary, Leonard and others publicly and frequently
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> announced that there were plans to do just that. AFAIK, Cal continues to
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> operate with the knowledge that Adobe could implement scriptability at any
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> time.
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Sure, it is certainly reasonable to believe that some future
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version of Photoshop would/will contain built-in scripting support.
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Though personally, if I were Adobe, I'd just buy Photoscripter and be
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done with it - though I gather that Cal wants more $$ than Adobe
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thinks it's worth...
That seems to be a trend with Main Event. $2000 for the privilege of
speaking to Cal for 4 days? Don't get me wrong. Call is certainly very
knowledgeable about Applescript. But *anyone* can achieve that level of
knowledge, definitely more knowledge than can be gained from talking to a
single person for 4 days, and certainly without spending $2000+ to gain it.
As a matter of fact, most things you would ever want to learn about
Applescript can be learned right here on this list, or elsewhere on the net.
People who just spent $600 on a graphics product shouldn't need to fork over
another $300 just for Applescript support. Not to mention, Applescript
support would be more tightly integrated and less problematic if it were
built-in. Ever open a script that uses PhotoScripter while Photoshop isn't
running? Your computer halts while it runs Photoshop in the background -
not pretty. Things like that need not happen if Applescript support was
built-in. Adobe needs to get with the program and build Applescript support
into Photoshop.