I have a pretty complicated script I've been working on but coming up against an issue. There is a portion of it I want to run only if a selected layer has Layer Effects applied to it. I have been searching all over this forum and haven't found the answer other than someone stating that it's possible. How does one detect Layer Effects? Any help would be greatly appreciated. ... View more

Has anyone had any luck figuring out how to make a script or even an action with using different Path Operations with the drawing tool? Long story short, I need to change a vector shape on a Shape Layer to Exclude AFTER it's already drawn. That change doesn't show up when recording an Action or even as an event in the Script Listener log. Am I out of luck? ... View more

I can't be the only one out there that wants to do this. I would prefer the blending mode of Layer Groups to default to Normal rather than Pass Through. I know it's possible to cook up an Event Script that would change the blending mode after I create a new group. However, I would like to find a way to do it without the script. Anyone come up against this? ... View more

I've been working on a script with a lot of help from the community here. Very thankful for all of it. I have run into a bug. This is a script that I only run on text layers. The script will perform some tasks that some of it depends on whether or not Leading is set to (Auto) or a user defined setting. It worked great until this morning when I came across an instance where it told me that there was an error in the code (line marked in red) and that there was no such attribute to the layer. This particular text layer was set to Auto Leading. If I converted it to a specific leading and then back to Auto the script would work, but of course I don't want to do that every time I come across this. Any ideas, o' Scripting Community? A snippet of my script: var doc = activeDocument var lay = doc.activeLayer var textSize = lay.textItem.size var textLayer = doc.activeLayer var myFont = app.fonts.getByName(textLayer.textItem.font).name; var textHeight = textLayer.bounds[3]-textLayer.bounds[1] var textWidth = textLayer.bounds[2]-textLayer.bounds[0] var docHeight = doc.height     docHeight = docHeight.toString().replace(' px', ''); var docWidth = doc.width     docWidth = docWidth.toString().replace(' px', ''); var specLayName = lay.name var docName = doc.name var tempDoc = """Temp File For Script""" // Set leading offset var ogHeight = getBoundingBox(textSize, multiplier); var leadOffset = ogHeight; // Convert to Auto Leading? {// ======================================== if (lay.textItem.useAutoLeading == false){     var leadOffset = activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.leading     {if (confirm('Can I convert this to Auto Leading for you?'))         {      // Make Snapshot======================         var idMk = charIDToTypeID( "Mk  " );             var desc61 = new ActionDescriptor();             var idnull = charIDToTypeID( "null" );                 var ref28 = new ActionReference();                 var idSnpS = charIDToTypeID( "SnpS" );                 ref28.putClass( idSnpS );             desc61.putReference( idnull, ref28 );             var idFrom = charIDToTypeID( "From" );                 var ref29 = new ActionReference();                 var idHstS = charIDToTypeID( "HstS" );                 var idCrnH = charIDToTypeID( "CrnH" );                 ref29.putProperty( idHstS, idCrnH );             desc61.putReference( idFrom, ref29 );         executeAction( idMk, desc61, DialogModes.NO );     alert ("I created a History Snapshot if you need to revert back to your custom "+(activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.leading) +" leading.");     lay.textItem.useAutoLeading = true     var leadOffset = ogHeight} }} } ... View more

OK, so i've been beating my head against a wall here for a few days trying to figure out this script. I've come pretty far with it at this point but still a few things I need to work out. I've got the text size conditional worked out  with some help. I've got some good ideas to work out add in some details when my text layers have multiple lines. However, I've noticed my script results differ when I start out with Point vs Paragraph text. I figure that the best way to combat this is to convert all text to Paragraph text but want to revert text layers that start as Point text back to Point text. Any ideas? I've been trying different variations of this: var doc = activeDocument  var lay = doc.activeLayer var textSize = lay.textItem.size var textlayer = doc.activeLayer var textHeight = textlayer.bounds[3]-textlayer.bounds[1] var textWidth = textlayer.bounds[2]-textlayer.bounds[0] var ogTextType = lay.textItem.kind; textType = paragraphText; // Additional Scripting {// lay.textType = ogTextType; ... View more