Re: [MacPerl] Scripting Photoshop

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>Anyone have any tips or suggestions on scripting photoshop?

Photoshop is not scriptable out-of-box, largely because Adobe doesn't 
want to add a feature to the Mac version which they can't duplicate in 
the WinBlows version (WHAT ARE THEY THINKING).  There is a third party 
plug-in that gives Photoshop scriptability, but this is an inelegant 
solution IMHO.

>I need to produce a few hundred gifs for headlines for a web site.

I suggest clip2gif, which does this in a much more compact package, and 
*IS* scriptable.  A few hundred gifs would be little problem here.

> Can I pass photoshop all the text, font, image size etc. and have it spit 
> out all my headers for me?

Directly, no.  See my above.  There should be some advice available on 
scripting clip2gif, and I have some code laying about if not.

--Brian

(Having to make do WITHOUT Photoshop)

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