Merge Layers broken in CS5.1 ?

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#1

Am I missing some thing? The layer is a text layer to be merged with the one under it


	tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1"
		set docref to current document
		tell docref
			set x to name of current layer
			merge art layer x
		end tell
	end tell

This works sometimes and then sometimes not. When it fails it is with this error
error "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 got an error: General Photoshop error occurred. This functionality may not be available in this version of Photoshop.

  • The command “Merge Layers” is not currently available." number 8800

IS this broken?

#2

hi,

I get this error message when the layer below is also of kind text layer (so may be it’s cause of some vectordata contained by the layer or layerset below) … try to rasterize this layer before merging …

bye

Hans

#3

Thanks Hans

Thats cured it!! What got me is why did it work intermittently


tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5.1"
		set docref to current document
		tell docref
			set x to name of current layer
			rasterize art layer x affecting entire layer
			merge art layer x
		end tell
	end tell
#4

hi,

as it always works from the GUI in PS I guess it’s kind of bug in the DOM of PS … which has minor changes from CS up to CS5, so most scripts running in CS also run in CS5 if you take care of the changes in OSX-Scripting-Terminoloy.

Have a nice day :slight_smile: