Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 11:08:25 -0800
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The fact that something can be done
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by itself show's potential, but PhotoShop's actions will never be as
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"powerful" as an AppleScript implementation becuase very little control is
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given to the "actioner" and all these wonderful capabilities with no
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control does not add up to power.
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>Ah, you are mixing Apples and Oranges.
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>I am talking about the underlying architecture, you are the talking about
the user experience.
As I said, that shows potential, not power. Without a UI that gives users
access to the inner workings there is no power given to the users.
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>Just because Adobe choose to provide a simpler UI to make actions
accessible to more users
I don't know why, but that description made me laugh out loud. : >
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>>I am pretty sure that the AI plug-in came after Cal had started work on
PS
That's not how I remember it. I believe work started on the AI plug-in
first, infact I believe they had a significant head start.
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Plus, Cal had no assurance from Adobe that they wouldn't turn around and
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implement Scriptability in the very next release of their product.
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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.
This kind of bugs me, because you frequently posted that it was a certainty
that Adbobe was planning to implement Scriptability as if as an insider you
were sharing some inside information but now we learn that it was simply
"reasonable to believe".
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>>I gather that Cal wants more $$ than Adobe thinks it's worth...
So, from where do you gather that? Do you have an inside track on some
negotiations (which I don't believe ever took place?) or are you simply
being reasonable again?
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>>>I, for one, am VERY glad that Photoscripter exists and that it shows
Adobe (and others) what can be done with a good scripting implementation on
top of a high end graphics package.
That's certainly not what I got from the tone or your previous posts. I
definitely got the feeling that you were bitter towards cal and were
lashing out, which, I guess, is understandable if you had been hoping to
work on a Photoshop implementation and didn't get the chance.
ES