Re: Photoshop CS3 and CS4 [was Re: AppleScript & inDesign CS4 & 10.6]
Re: Photoshop CS3 and CS4 [was Re: AppleScript & inDesign CS4 & 10.6]
- Subject: Re: Photoshop CS3 and CS4 [was Re: AppleScript & inDesign CS4 & 10.6]
- From: Jon Pugh <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:36:40 -0700
At 8:58 PM +1000 9/25/09, Shane Stanley wrote:
>Photoshop uses it for its built-in unit coercions -- so you can say "set
>height to 100 as points", and so on. For some reason, this functionality
>could only be achieved by using a scripting addition -- Quark did something
>similar.
The reason for the scripting addition is so that you can specify units outside of Photoshop/Quark tell blocks.
I did a similar thing for PhotoFlash back in the early 90s, but I also installed them from the app if the scripting addition wasn't present, so we'd never fail.
>None of the other Adobe apps use these coercions; Illustrator works solely
>in points, and InDesign doesn't support coercion between units.
InDesign uses strings for units. "12 inches", "864 points", which are not parsed by AppleScript, so they don't need any support. PhotoFlash also supported string formats. ;)
Jon
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