Re: Photoshop 6.0.1 and PDF
Re: Photoshop 6.0.1 and PDF
- Subject: Re: Photoshop 6.0.1 and PDF
- From: email@hidden (Michael Sullivan)
- Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 18:48:33 -0400
- Organization: Society for the Incurably Pompous
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Micheal Sullivan commented to the ongoing thread about PhotoShop 6.0.1 & PDF:
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>Quickeys is available on X (as is a new free utility called
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>Youpi Key), but if you need to anything more complicated in
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>that dialog than click "OK" every time, these will probably
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>not work.
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Actually, QuicKeys is quite robust for handling dialog boxes; the secret lies
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in using either (a) the tab key to move around the options box that get typed
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in, or (b) recording a sequence and checking the playback speeds, then
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padding the entire sequence with a wait until dialog box to ensure it doesn't
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trigger to early.
That's not robust, it's pathetically breakable, because your system
doesn't run at the same speed all the time. Trust me, I've done a whole
prepress workflow using QuickKeys before I learned AS. It's possible to
make stuff like this work, sort of, but it's very easy to run into
problems where you just can't do what you need to do reliably.
I may have overstated the problems, it's quite possible that you can do
something a lot more complicated than merely clicking "OK", but I've
been told that Quickeys X is much less good at this stuff than the OS 9
version, let alone OC or KQ which are much better at this stuff than QK
in OS 9 (IME).
But I suppose it never hurts to try. If the dialog box is consistently
placed and sized or can be identified in some way (I often had trouble
doing this with QK), you might even be able to get away with just
clicking.
In any case, it's going to require a third party utility to do this kind
of scripting, and the choices are a lot fewer and farther between on X
than on 9.
Michael
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