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Sep 29, 2025
03:59 PM
Thanks! I need to use actions for distro for other users, this is bridging the gap from me learning UXP, and creating extensions. I ended up being able to create new actions, run and record the scripts, and then just organiz them into an ATN file I can distro. Thanks again for the help!
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Sep 28, 2025
02:58 PM
1 Upvote
Used a non M1 mac for script listener, and ended up creating a loop with this revised header with placeholders: var jsxHeader = "/*\
<javascriptresource>\
<name>$$$/AdobePlugin/PIPLInfo/PluginName/!!!FUNCTIONTITLE!!!=!!!MENUACTIONTITLE!!!</name>\
<menu>automate</menu>\
<category>!!!CAT!!!</category>\
<eventid>!!!STRINGTYPEID!!!</eventid>\
<terminology><![CDATA[<< /Version 1\
/Events <<\
/!!!STRINGTYPEID!!! [($$$/AdobePlugin/PIPLInfo/PluginName/!!!FUNCTIONTITLE!!!=!!!MENUACTIONTITLE!!!) /!!!FUNCTIONTITLE!!!Settings <<\
>>]\
>>\
>>\
]]></terminology>\
</javascriptresource>\
*/"; Brief explanation of what needs to be replaced: !!!FUNCTIONTITLE!!! - A unique function/plugin title for the header !!!MENUACTIONTITLE!!! - Human Readable Description for menus and actions !!!CAT!!! - Category to separate your scripts in the menu - NOTE: I hardcoded automate. !!!STRINGTYPEID!!! - A unique string that will be used to call the item via scripting. The error message is resolved by using executeAction: executeAction(stringIDToTypeID(!!!INSERT_STRINGTYPEID_HERE!!!))
//Run Menu Item triggers an error
//app.runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID(STRINGTYPEID_THROWS_ERROR)) I still am unable to stop recording actions so it all records as one, but I had 25 save scripts and others I need to distribute, so this is more precise. Only other downside esthetically, is executeAction records with a "Scripts" Sub menu, vs if you manually choose "Insert Menu Item" which isn't recording appropriately(throws error) via scripting.
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Sep 22, 2025
06:04 PM
I'm trying to record menu items via scripting, and am coming up empty. Modifying the below, I've gotten it to show up in the Automate Menu as "Bologna", and record as "Bologna" in actions rather than "Scripts Name: "Bologna"" 1. How do I create an event ID for my script? I modified this one from Contact Sheet II 2. How do I call my menu item properly with a script? I've tried iterations of: app.runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID("Bologna")); And get the error message: "The object “<unknown> menu item” is not currently available." 3. Alternatively, can I use runMenuItem for any of the scripts? I tride "Automate: Bologna" and "Scripts: Bologna" and neither worked. GOAL: Is to record a menu item to an action, I'm on an M1 chip and scripting listener no longer works. Also tried it with contactSheetII and get the same error. /*
<javascriptresource>
<name>$$$/AdobePlugin/PIPLInfo/PluginName/testing123=Bologna</name>
<menu>automate</menu>
<category>ScriptTesting</category>
<eventid>0B71D221-F8CE-11d2-B21B-0008C75B322D</eventid>
<terminology><![CDATA[<< /Version 1
/Events <<
/0B71D221-F8CE-11d2-B21B-0008C75B322D [($$$/AdobePlugin/PIPLInfo/PluginName/testing123=Bologna) /testing123Settings <<
/CSIISettings [(Bologna Settings) /typeText]
/Msge [(Message) /typeText]
>>]
>>
>>
]]></terminology>
</javascriptresource>
*/
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Sep 19, 2025
11:58 AM
@r-bin I found this Stop Recording post where you mention using an ActionMaker object, but it doesn't look like this works anymore. Scripting Listener no longer works on my M1 mac, just trying to see if there's a current way to stop recording an action so I can start recording a new one.
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Sep 04, 2025
06:02 PM
Love exiftool, wanted something that I didn't have to install in addition.
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Sep 04, 2025
06:00 PM
Thanks! This script was pretty straightforward, though the osa portion is always tricky. I've got a lot built in javascript, and sips aside they can be run on windows, so I needed a solution that runs in line.
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Sep 04, 2025
11:02 AM
I was looking for a surefire method to read image dimensions and information without opening them in Photoshop on mac, and came across app.system. Using the sips command, and writing a temp file to get the variables over to Photoshop ended up working better than trying to read metadata from files, as it varies by extension. Here's the solution I came up with: function dateInt() {
var theDate = new Date();
return theDate.getTime();
}
function readTextFile(file) {
file = File(file);
file.open('r');
var str = file.read();
file.close();
return str;
}
var tgtImg = 'IMAGE_PATH/IMAGE_NAME.ext'; //Edit this line
var dateFile = "sipsInfo_" + dateInt() + ".txt";
var dateFilePath = $.getenv("TMPDIR") + dateFile;
var osascriptCommand = 'sips -1 -g pixelWidth -g pixelHeight "' + tgtImg + '" > ' + dateFilePath;
app.system(osascriptCommand);
var textDims = readTextFile(dateFilePath);
var sipW = Number(textDims.match(/pixelWidth\: ([0-9]+)/g)[0].split(": ")[1]);
var sipH = Number(textDims.match(/pixelHeight\: ([0-9]+)/g)[0].split(": ")[1]);
File(dateFilePath).remove();
alert("Dimensions:\nW:" + sipW + "\nH:" + sipH) Tested with PSD, PSB, TIF,JPG, PNG, which are all read consistently by sips.
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Aug 11, 2025
09:55 AM
Thanks, looking to stop the actions panel from recording an action and not the scripting listener.
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Aug 11, 2025
09:55 AM
Thanks. Unfortunately, this isn't what I was asking. I'm trying to stop the actions panel from recording: It automatically triggers on but can't be shut off. @jazz-y Any additional thoughts on this?
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Aug 08, 2025
02:32 PM
1 Upvote
Minor correction to this code to get it to work. destination needs an array value to work in the loop destination[i] var doc = app.activeDocument;
var pages = doc.pages.everyItem().getElements();
addBookmark(pages);
function addBookmark(destination) {
for (var i = 0; i < destination.length; i++) {
myBookmark = doc.bookmarks.add(destination[i]);
myBookmark.name = destination[i].name;
}
}
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Aug 08, 2025
11:53 AM
Using "ScriptingListener.plugin" I was able to record an action, however it triggers "Begin recording" and will not toggle it off, even if I make another action with the same script. Is there a way to trigger this action or the escape key? I want to be able to record multiple actions in a loop, so stopping recording is imperative.
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Aug 08, 2025
11:39 AM
Using "ScriptingListener.plugin" from Adobe. On a mac Silicon chip I had to enable Rosetta for it to work, duplicated my photoshop app and changed the icon so I didn't have to toggle back and forth.
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Aug 07, 2025
11:40 AM
I'm trying to figure out how to "Stop Playing/Recording". Do you know if there's a way to do this via Scripting? I compiled a scripting listener plugin to record actions, but it starts recording and won't stop.
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Jun 27, 2025
02:57 PM
This happened again in another document. What ended up working, was replacing 2 problem fonts with different fonts. In this case Helvetica 75 Bold was missing and only applied to a space character, I replaced it with Times. After I removed the font, I closed the document, reopened, and loaded my paragraph styles and the paragraph styles displayed correctly.
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Jun 18, 2025
01:07 PM
Agreed they should function, this was an otf, this is a weird anomaly. The only warning on install is “duplicate font”. I haven’t seen any PS fonts since they’ve become unsupported, where before that there was a warning when one would pop up.
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Jun 18, 2025
08:21 AM
I'm in a print production workflow, and received the font through "Package". I have a standard set of fonts installed via finder/font book, but occasionally will be sent a one of these, maybe legacy or another format like ttf. Occasionally those will be corrupt or conflicting with what I have installed in some way, and show up with the wrong weight, or be a jumble of characters. Ultimately, trying not to spend an hour troubleshooting every time.
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Jun 17, 2025
11:38 PM
Just upgraded to the latest InDesign today, on current version of MacOS. Away from my computer so I can't be more specific. There are a few fonts I've received before, that just have something corrupt about them when loaded in the document fonts folder, regardless of if i install them or not. The font did not show as missing with the file deleted, it kept defaulting to bold instead of book. Scrub the styles as I might, change the font to comic sans and back, close, open, it just kept persisting to the same phantom settings, with no overrides set. By rolled back, I meant when I receive INDD to finalize, I save the original file as a back up. Starting over there everything worked as expected, with the font deleted from document fonts, and installed as in my system as per usual.
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Jun 17, 2025
05:13 PM
I've run into this occasionally, but it would appear every once and a while, I'll get a corrupt font in the Document Fonts folder. I deleted the corrupt font, but the corrupt font kept sticking through IDMLs and closing reopening and deleting styles. Ultimately, with the font deleted, I rolled back a version, reopened and the correct face was showing. Does this bug sound familiar? Was hoping there'd be a way to fix it without restoring an old file.
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May 14, 2025
08:16 AM
It looks like scripting listener and recording actions do not allow access to create shortcuts for this. Is there a way to access the layer panel attributes via scripting? I use Not Visible most often, would like to be able to toggle back and forth easily.
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Apr 26, 2025
07:35 AM
I have a script to save files as PSDs, that of course errors out when the file is over 2GB, since it should save as a PSB instead. Basic logic, I'd like the script to check file size, and determine if it needs to be a PSD or a PSB and save, without throwing an error. Where/when would I check the file size to have a script to save as PSB? I've recorded save as PSB via script listener, and I'm seeing 2 different states for saving PSBs, "Begin" and "Success", along with a background file save complete. var jsFilePath = "/Users/<<USER_NAME>>/Desktop/theFileOver2GB.psb"
// ======================================================= Begin
var idsave = stringIDToTypeID( "save" );
var desc766 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idas = stringIDToTypeID( "as" );
var desc767 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idmaximizeCompatibility = stringIDToTypeID( "maximizeCompatibility" );
desc767.putBoolean( idmaximizeCompatibility, true );
var idlargeDocumentFormat = stringIDToTypeID( "largeDocumentFormat" );
desc766.putObject( idas, idlargeDocumentFormat, desc767 );
var idin = stringIDToTypeID( "in" );
desc766.putPath( idin, new File( jsFilePath ) );
var iddocumentID = stringIDToTypeID( "documentID" );
desc766.putInteger( iddocumentID, 450 );
var idlowerCase = stringIDToTypeID( "lowerCase" );
desc766.putBoolean( idlowerCase, true );
var idsaveStage = stringIDToTypeID( "saveStage" );
var idsaveStageType = stringIDToTypeID( "saveStageType" );
var idsaveBegin = stringIDToTypeID( "saveBegin" );
desc766.putEnumerated( idsaveStage, idsaveStageType, idsaveBegin );
executeAction( idsave, desc766, DialogModes.NO );
// ======================================================= Success
var idsave = stringIDToTypeID( "save" );
var desc769 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idas = stringIDToTypeID( "as" );
var desc770 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idmaximizeCompatibility = stringIDToTypeID( "maximizeCompatibility" );
desc770.putBoolean( idmaximizeCompatibility, true );
var idlargeDocumentFormat = stringIDToTypeID( "largeDocumentFormat" );
desc769.putObject( idas, idlargeDocumentFormat, desc770 );
var idin = stringIDToTypeID( "in" );
desc769.putPath( idin, new File( jsFilePath ) );
var iddocumentID = stringIDToTypeID( "documentID" );
desc769.putInteger( iddocumentID, 450 );
var idlowerCase = stringIDToTypeID( "lowerCase" );
desc769.putBoolean( idlowerCase, true );
var idsaveStage = stringIDToTypeID( "saveStage" );
var idsaveStageType = stringIDToTypeID( "saveStageType" );
var idsaveSucceeded = stringIDToTypeID( "saveSucceeded" );
desc769.putEnumerated( idsaveStage, idsaveStageType, idsaveSucceeded );
executeAction( idsave, desc769, DialogModes.NO );
// =======================================================
var idbackgroundSaveCompleted = stringIDToTypeID( "backgroundSaveCompleted" );
var desc771 = new ActionDescriptor();
var iddocumentID = stringIDToTypeID( "documentID" );
desc771.putInteger( iddocumentID, 450 );
var idsaveScheduleMode = stringIDToTypeID( "saveScheduleMode" );
desc771.putString( idsaveScheduleMode, """auto""" );
var iddontRecord = stringIDToTypeID( "dontRecord" );
desc771.putBoolean( iddontRecord, true );
var idforceNotify = stringIDToTypeID( "forceNotify" );
desc771.putBoolean( idforceNotify, true );
executeAction( idbackgroundSaveCompleted, desc771, DialogModes.NO );
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Mar 07, 2025
09:04 AM
Here's are the main specs on my system config, I don't want to post the entire thing into a public forum. I don't know which version of Photoshop this started in, I hadn't had to mask regularly, that's where if this wasn't how the featured was intended to be used let me know. My use case, I have an existing mask, I select an area of it with a marquee, and want to use "select and mask" to adjust the edges of only that area in place. Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.3.0 20250122.r.156 bfca642 x64
macOS: Sequoia 15.3.1
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro16,1
Processor Name: 8-Core Intel Core i9
Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 16 MB
Hyper-Threading Technology: Enabled
Memory: 32 GB
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Mar 06, 2025
09:53 AM
I've noticed you're unable to select a marquee around an area of a mask, and "select and mask" only that portion. I think before the properties panel, you were able to do this, through refine mask? I did launch that dialog, but it doesn't composite the refined area over new area, it simply changes the selection. Select and mask is grayed out when there's a selection. Does this feature no longer exist? Did it ever? I tend to select portions of existing masks to revise based on clothing, or hair or skin, so I just want to focus on a portion at a time.
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Mar 05, 2025
07:57 PM
That's the route I ended up going on indexOf, just reformatted it as a function. I do like the "shorthand" of it, but the errors it created simply weren't worth it.
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Mar 05, 2025
04:01 PM
Thanks! I did find my doc is UTF-8, weird that it's not available during the save as, but more foolproof for accidentally nuking a file. I tried UTF-16 instead, and it doesn't support return characters the same way so I'm going to stick with "$.appEncoding". Scope wise, the document I have all these functions in, I treat as kind of an engine for various functionality(4500 lines) cross programs, so it's very possible that some glitch is happening to switch encoding throughout. As it stands in Extendscript adding things via prototype like indexOf, tends to break things.
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Feb 11, 2025
08:51 PM
Thanks! I think I follow, so that the styles aren’t accidentally nuked? And potentially scope changes? I’m not usually manipulating text or styles with code.
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Feb 11, 2025
07:38 PM
1 Upvote
Yep, there it works. Ultimately not what my script is doing. I needed it to check to make sure there's a copyright symbol on every page of the document, and return a count. I had already gone down the road of looping through the pages, the fromCharCode, was the piece I needed to resolve a bug.
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Feb 11, 2025
04:28 PM
^2 is what InDesign’s find/change subs in as a “symbol” for copyright. Didn’t think it would work, but I worth a shot!
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Feb 11, 2025
03:10 PM
This search came back, and I did extensive testing on scope as the functions I had trouble with aren't a problem on their own. Ultimately, what I discovered, was that searching for a "©" was incorrectly returning a -1, when .search was nested, with regex and as a string. InDesign character ^2 didn't work, but String.fromCharCode(169) did! //Revised Code below
function idLegalLineCount() {
var newAD = app.activeDocument;
//Set copyright symbol Character to a string. © Character itself will cause errors in certain situations.
var cRSym = String.fromCharCode(169);
var lgCnt = [];
//Loop through all the pages of the document
for (var y = 0; y < newAD.pages.length; y++) {
var aPg = newAD.pages[y];
var aFr = aPg.textFrames;
var aMF = aPg.masterPageItems;
var foundYou = false;
//Look through Page Text Frames
for (var x = 0; x < aFr.length; x++) {
var aPs = aFr[x].parentStory.contents;
// OLD METHOD Doesn't always work
//if (aPs.search(/©/gi) > -1) var foundYou = true; //alert((y + 1) + " - " + foundYou)
//search(cRSym) returns correct results
if (aPs.search(cRSym) > -1) var foundYou = true; //alert((y + 1) + " - " + foundYou)
}
}
//Look through Master Page Text Frames
for (var z = 0; z < aMF.length; z++) {
if (aMF[z].constructor.name != "TextFrame") continue;
var mPs = aMF[z].parentStory.contents;
// OLD METHOD Doesn't always work
//if (mPs.search(/©/gi) > -1) var foundYou = true; //alert((y + 1) + "- M - " + foundYou);
//search(cRSym) returns correct results
if (mPs.search(cRSym) > -1) var foundYou = true; //alert((y + 1) + "- M - " + foundYou)
}
}
if (foundYou == false) lgCnt.push(y + 1);
}
return lgCnt;
}
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Jan 31, 2025
09:11 AM
Thanks! Looks like this documentation doesn't have an example with Illustrator's XMPString, your example is clear on how to handle. XMPString is the equivalent to xmpMetadata.rawData in photoshop. //Photoshop example
var xmp = new XMPMeta(app.activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData);
//Illustrator example
var xmp = new XMPMeta(app.activeDocument.XMPString); After the library is loaded, looks like all is needed to read the title directly is: var xmp = new XMPMeta(app.activeDocument.XMPString);
alert(xmp.getLocalizedText(XMPConst.NS_DC,"title", null, null));
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Jan 30, 2025
11:16 PM
Thanks! Works like a charm! I don't know if I'd say it's easy, but I can't really wrap my mind around xmp, cause it always seems to be a diffrent formatted xml, and use different functions between all the programs. Is there a straight forward guide you've come across that explains it? I guess since most of extendscript is a single package, once it gets into different libraries, it's a stumbling block every time for me.
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