Since Photoshop CS, Apple Script is supported. But unfortunately it doesn’t work on my machine.
The problem can be described as follows:
- Trying to start the simple Adobe example script (“New Document”)
tell application “Adobe Photoshop CS”
activate
set newDocRef to make new document with properties {width:3 as inches, height:3 as inches}
end tell
results in an Apple Script Error window:
“Adobe Photoshop CS got an error: Can’t make class document.”
- The Apple Script Editor “Open Dictionary” function lists for Photoshop CS one Apple Script class only:
“do script‚v : Play the specified Action”
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If scripts are moved to the folder “Adobe Photoshop CS/Presets/scripts” it doesn’t make any changes in the “File/Scripts=>” menue. After a restart of Photoshop CS, the scripts aren’t listened in the menue, whatever format (AS, app, javascript) they will have.
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Whenever I try to start one of the four scripts (Javascript scrips) listened by “File/Scripts =>” or the “browse” option, it results in a Photoshop CS error window:
" Can’t use … , because Photoshop couldn’t find the JavaScript-Plugin"
(note: translation by me, I see the German error text)
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I didn’t found any plugin as “JavaScript-Plugin” in the CS Extensions folders, but I found a “scripting support” plugin (“Skript-Unterstützung” in my version).
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A different Photoshop CS of a friend of mine on a different machine shows the same results as described above.
Assuming that others here may had the same problems, I have the following questions:
- Though there are complex Apple Script manuals by Adobe for Photoshop CS - does it work with CS at all (or other classes as “do script”) ?
- May this a problem regarding the German version of CS (which I use) ?
- If this is all about the missing “JavaScript-Plugin”, where can I find it ?
Additional information:
MacOS: 10.4.11
Software: Photoshop CS (Version 8.0.1)
Computer: 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, 1MB L3 cache, 1 GB DDR SDRAM
