RE: PHOTOSCRIPTER HELP
RE: PHOTOSCRIPTER HELP
- Subject: RE: PHOTOSCRIPTER HELP
- From: Eric Schult <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 08:29:57 -0500
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I have been trying to get this script to work for weeks and can't figure out
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the correct format to save as a PhotoShop EPS with JPG compression High
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Quality and with a preview plus appending the file extension. Below is a
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copy of the save routine that I wrote.
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save the current document in file savevar as Photoshop EPS {encoding:JPEG}
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with appending file extension and Preview
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Savevar is my varible for the path to file it works if I delete "and
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Preview" except we need one. Plus there is no compression being done.
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Here are my goals for the save
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1. must be Photoshop EPS Format
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2. Preview needs to be "Macintosh (8 bits/pixel)"
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3. Encoding "JPEG (high quality)
This may not be responsive, but what you're trying to do could be done in
Photoshop WITHOUT PhotoScripter.
If you're going through a list of files in a source folder, opening them up
in Photoshop, converting them to something else, and saving them to a target
folder, you might want to try this:
- Before opening up each file in Photoshop, write the file name to a
variable: "fileName.eps";
_ Rename the file: "temp.eps";
- Using Photoshop's "do script" command, trigger a previously recorded
Photoshop action that opens, a file named "temp.eps" converts it as desired,
and saves it into a target folder, closing the "temp.eps" without saving;
- Set the name of the resulting "temp.jpg" file in your target folder to
"fileName.jpg", trimming the .eps extention off the fileName, as necessary;
- Rename the "temp.eps" file back to its original file name;
- Loop/repeat.
I've got PhotoScripter, but because they wanted so much $$ for running it in
a production environment, and because I wanted to run my scripts on multiple
machines, I decided to work around PhotoScripter, using the one native
action Photoshop provides: do script. Works great.
If you want a sample script to work with, inquire off-list at email@hidden.
I'll be happy to oblige.
- WES