Do you use bridgetalk?
As most of you know, Bridgetalk is a way to send and receive, information and scripts, from one Adobe application to another.Does anyone actively use this object?What do you use it for? Launching one...
View ArticleFramemaker text to PDF metadata?
Hi, I'd like to write a script that does the following: Gets text from a (non-structured) Framemaker file using paragraph formats.Prints the file to a PDF.Sets the respective metadata fields for the...
View ArticleLearning to script Adobe products - Javascript or ExtendScript?
Hi there,I know that ExtendScript is a dialect of Javascript, so if I want to learn scripting, should I first study Javascript or just plough straight into ExtendScript?Regards,David
View ArticleHow do you revise/modify a single value of an XML element with Extendscript?
I have created the below script to create an XML settings file, that will be recalled upon every execution of a script. I am able to successfully execute the script and get it created, but I'm not so...
View ArticleSetting text size in Photoshop script doesn't seem to work
I have written a script and used it for several years to take metadata and place it on a PSD file as a layer as 12 point text. This script runs fine on my main desktop computer running Win7 and...
View ArticleRun javascript (not in a jsx file) from the command line extendscript
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone knew how to run javascript from the command line in Extendscript (meaning Extendscript would be the target application). I know about the -run command line flag in...
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How to call CreateProcess (window.cep.process.createProcess) from jsx files?
Please forgive me if my question seems stupid, but my experience with js, jsx and web technologies is very limited (console programming background). I need to run external tool to pack the layers...
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Responsive mail merge
We have a spreadsheet from excel, and a document in indesign that is set up to use conditional text in a number of areas.It's already set up for a mail merge, with name and address. However, there are...
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InDesign Script to find images w/ prefix code, place img on page along with...
Hello,I'm looking for an InDesign script that will prompt me for a code/text, this code/text will be the prefix of images in the sever, and then return the images found with this prefix by placing them...
View ArticleDealing with ExtendScript hangs and long processing times?
Just curious if an ExtendScript for some reason hangs (or takes really long time to run), you just have to kill it externally right? Or is there some other Adobe scripting feature I'm not aware of that...
View ArticleAdobe VBScript or COM API fails when Adobe application not already open on a...
Was wondering if anybody might have input on this or observed this themselves. Is there a known issue/bug for this? I'm building scripted tooling to automate tasks in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop,...
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Does ExtendScript have a concept of "main" function/method like when script...
I was just wondering whether ExtendScript has any concept like a main method, whereby if the current script is included by another script like a library import it will not execute this main...
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HTTP requests by sockets rather than Bridge/Bridgetalk?
Has anyone brought this up before? I came across this article that's an implementation of HTTP requests using sockets rather than Bridge's HttpConnection class/object, so this should execute w/o...
View ArticleHow in ExtendScript(Photoshop) get SolidColor of fill shape?
Hi!I am writinga scriptfor Photoshopthat wouldcomparethe colorlayer(shape or text)to the reference, and if theyhaverepainteddifferentlayer. Withtext layersunderstood, but how to do itfor shapesnot...
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View Bookmarks In a Web Version of PDF Reader
I'm sorry if my title is confusing but I'm not sure of the correct terminology. I have a lot of PDF documents that are accessible from OneDrive in Office365. Once the documents are clicked for viewing,...
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Tracking Conversions
We have been attempting to create trackable URLs to determine sales conversion rates (based on the URL provided by BC below) for a variety of Facebook ad campaigns. Although we can now track...
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Ability for a video to stop automatically, then seamless start on the next...
Hi - I have one long MP4 sequence which i have chopped into 20 separate videos. I need the video to stop at the end of each sequence and then when the user clicks, start seamlessly onto the next...
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Script to rename PDF from auto generated name to footer
I have a folder that gets multiple PDF's written to it, and the PDF's have generic names the increment numerically.The footer of each PDF contains a unique name, and I would like to find a script that...
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May We Have an Adobe Version of Flump?
Dear, Adobe.My name is Ashanti Miller and I am a professional digital animator. All mobile Flash animators and developer and myself have the following request: Will you please develop an equivalent to...
View ArticleJSON > JavaScript Array - populating form fields
Hello, all, I'm working on a project where the customer has a form to allow a user to filter a database query by name, location, rank, etc. Said customer wants to allow a user to save form data for...
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