Re: scripting Photoshop
Re: scripting Photoshop
- Subject: Re: scripting Photoshop
- From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:29:18 -0800
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>>> That seems to be a trend with Main Event. $2000 for the privilege of
speaking to Cal for 4 days?
IMHO four full days of intensive AppleScript study with Cal is worth every
penny.
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>>Cal is certainly very knowledgeable about Applescript. But *anyone* can
achieve that level of knowledge,
If "anyone" can achieve that level of knowledge, then why does the Apple's
AppleScript team pay Cal to consult on every revision of AppleScript?
For that matter why do other developers hire Cal to work with their
engineers to evaluate their implementations of AppleScript?
Or why would Apple's website have dozens of articles about Scripting and
Scriptability written by Cal?
Before you dismiss Cal as just another AppleScript developer I suggest you
spend a few hours reading his AppleScript articles on the Apple developer
website. (I don't have the URL, but it's linked to from Apples AppleScript
site. I can post the URL later if anyone is interested.)
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>> People who just spent $600 on a graphics product shouldn't need to fork over
another $300 just for Applescript support.
I agree, but if the choice is another $300 dollars for AppleScript or
nothing for no appleScript, $300 is a bargain.
You can't blame Cal for Adobe not building scriptability into their product.
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>>Not to mention, Applescript support would be more tightly integrated and less
problematic if it were built-in.
How do we know this? Are we guessing? Are we assuming?
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>>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.
Same thing happens with Quark. It's not PhotoScripter's fault. The
"problem" is that PhotoShop has a dynamic dictionary which can be changed
depending on which plug-ins are installed. PhotoShop is opened by
AppleScript so AppleScript can compile the script's terminology based on the
current dictionary.
The same thing would happen if Scriptability were built in. This is a good
thing, a pretty thing. It allows enlightened plug in developers to add
scriptability to their plug in.
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>> Adobe needs to get with the program and build Applescript support into
Photoshop.
Sure, then we wouldn't have Cal to kick around anymore.
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