> just looking at Xbytor's code for that gives me a headache   I have the same problem. 🙂 Just look for doc.saveAs and insert your watermark code somewhere before that.   -X ... View more

I have _really_ old posts from back when they used NNTP. When they swtiched to Jive and (later) dropped NNTP, my local archiving stopped. Not really happy with the new UI and the loss of old posts but there is not much I can do about it. ps-scripts.com is alive and apparently a lot of older posts to that site were recovered when it came back up. Not everything is there, but it's more than I could have hoped for. Thanks to whoever did this.   When I get my Mac back up and running (damn hurricane michael!), I'll see if I can  archive the NNTP stuff (dates back to 2004/PS7 days) and maybe upload it to ps-scripts.   Cheers! -xbytor ... View more

>I'm glad to see you - you are legend. I was. I'm retired now. Haven't written any code in over a year. That will change for a bit when my MacPro is back up but that appears to be more of a problem than I was anticpating.   >Adobe is now more serious about members, I see they fix bugs and care of Bridge what Paul Riggott would be happy of.   Makes me happy, too, especially the bug fixes. I have a few old RexExp bugs that I wonder if the fixed. I also wonder if they are using a version of JS from this century.   -X ... View more

>Some other things that have many of us concerned is that Adobe deleted up to the last two years of posts.   Well that sux. Kinda like losing all of the old NNTP traffic when they first went to a web based forum. I still have that stuff archived somewhere.   But ps-scripts.com is up and running, at least, so some legacy info is still out there.   -X ... View more

That's great that they finally 'fixed' it. We have requested this change for years. ... View more

Unless things have changed in the PSCC era, there is no way to gracefully handle extreme errors when opening an image file. You will get an Error Alert and you cannot avoid it. To get around this your best bet maybe to call an external program (e.g. IrfanView?) or see if you can call Bridge to validate the file. I used to use IrfanView to prescan files for corruption before processing in PS especially if it was a large number of files. ... View more

JJMack mentioned PSJS so I'll touch on some other options. Communications between apps is handled via the BridgeTalk API. If you want to do socket level comms, there is a Socket class. There is also an SDK that will let you write code in C and load that DLL in at runtime. I tried it years ago and found it very frustrating. to use. I wanted to define and implement new classes in C for performance and other reason. There is also the Plugin SDK which probably won't be of help as plugins are not cross-app portable. For cross app communications, BridgeTalk is the best tool. I haven't programmed the ESTK editor and don't know if it's possible. I assume that is where you wanted to do your intellisense work. ... View more

I just installed 19.1.2. I plan on updating xtools, CSX, and ImageProcessorPro over the next month. ... View more

The page ps-scripts.sourceforge.net/xtools.html was last edited in 2008 which was back in the CS2 era. I stopped updating because Adobe abandoned the HTML editor that I was using and I really didn't feel like learning a new one. But the main problem here is that SourceForge is phasing out support for CVS. Looks like I'll have to move things over to Git. The most immediate effect is that you can't browse for particulars in xtools via CVS which is what the links in xtool.html refer to. You are stuck having to download a zip file rather than download a single .jsx file. I guess this means I'll have to relearn Git and update my build scripts. I'll post on here when everything is ready. ... View more

>I see many links on your site are broken. Do you plan to fix them? Somebody else said something similar. Which site and which links? ... View more

FYI, the fle.execute() call will not work on OSX. The file's execute bit is not set by default. I don't know if I ever came up with a solution that works for both OSs. ... View more

>>Thanks, I didn't realize that trying to get a property like that could throw errors. This happens in more than a few places in PSJS. Since they are not documented, you stumble across them, add the try/catch, and move on. Some less than ideal decisions were made during the original design of the PSJS API. ... View more

When I drop a new release, I post in the scripting forum and the main PS forum. ... View more

The zxp file will not work with any CC releases. You will have to do an install with the zip file. Installation instructions are included. I'm not sure if they work for v2018 (the only problems I've heard of are on the Mac) but I am working on a new release that I hope to kick out the door that has a few new features and bug fixes. ... View more

Embedded color profiles are large blocks of binary data as Brush Stroke Action likely is. Reading them from the file is easy enough, but it has to be converted into a form that can be used in an ActionDescriptor. The reverse happens when writing the data to disk as JavaScript. These conversions are time killers. One other thing that maybe happening is that it maybe crashing the JS interpreter (which I've done before) because of the large volume of the data being converted. ... View more

One thing you might want to try is to just let one of the conversion scripts run for an hour or so. I know that ActionFileToJavascript.jsx has this problem with embedded color profiles. It looked like PS was locked up. Instead, the script was just processing a lot of binary data which looks like it may be the case here. -X ... View more

I'm not ignoring you folks. Waiting for a new CC key from Adobe then I'll try and get this straightened out. -X ... View more

I'm not up to date on PSCC releases. Send Tom Ruark (or soembody) a bump to get me an upgrade and I'll take a look at it -X ... View more

Somebody mention me? SourceForge is acting up so you will need to download xtools: SourceForge The files of interest are xtools/xlib/Text.jsx  and xtools/xlib/TextTest.jsx. It can be done but it requires a bit of work. Here is the relevant code from TextTest.jsx that shows you how it's done. var layer = doc.layers[layerName];   doc.activeLayer = layer;   var opts = new TextOptions(layer.textItem);   opts.contents = "123567875688\radsfasfasdfasdfasdf\n(&#^&^#$";   // construct the styles   var s1 = new TextStyle("ArialMT");   var s2 = new TextStyle("Courier-Bold", 30, Text.toRGBColor(0, 255, 0));   // this style will use the default font...   var s3 = new TextStyle(undefined, 42, Text.toRGBColor(255, 0, 0));   // superscript test   var s0 = new TextStyle(s1);   s0.baseline = PSString.superScript;   // Now create the set of ranges to apply the styles over   var ranges = new TextStyleRanges();   ranges.add(new TextStyleRange(0, 1, s0));   ranges.add(new TextStyleRange(1, opts.contents.length, s1));   ranges.add(new TextStyleRange(5, 10, s2));   ranges.add(new TextStyleRange(7, 15, s3));   ranges.add(new TextStyleRange(25, undefined, s2));   opts.ranges = ranges;   Text.modifyTextLayer(doc, opts, doc.layers[layerName]); As somebody said before, InDesign is a more appropriate tool. ... View more

One thing you have to be aware of is that string ids and char ids are not a one-to-one mapping. For instance, "Strt" maps to "Saturation" and "Start". ... View more

ps-scripts.com has been reborn. It was the original non-Adobe PSJS site. Not quite as busy as it once was, but there is still traffic there. ... View more

I hoped to find a way to include some kind of loop, so that I can work with the existing (and good working) script and just add a "save-until-you-get-the-correct-size" function. Set up a loop around the saveWebJpg function that changes the jpgQuality parameter until you get the correct size. I would suggest using an increment size of 5 or 10. ... View more

FWIW, I just launched ESTK (4.0.0.1, 4.5.5, 6.2.2), loaded a .jsx, and selected 2015.5 as jjmack showed in his post. PSCC 2015.5 fired up just fine. Make sure you have the most recent version of ESTK or find the version of ESTK that I'm using and try that. I have several versions of ESTK because I have a lot of versions of PS some of which require specific versions of ESTK. -X ... View more

That 'M' at the end of the line should be a semicolon ->  ; ... View more

1) There is no way to make a single call so save a jpeg file with a maximum file size. The only way to do it is to try different jpeg quality settings until you get the file size you want. Performance sucks doing this. People have posted bits of code here and maybe on ps-scripts.com that do this. This save-until-you-get-the-correct-size is not available in Image Processor or Image Processor Pro (IPP). 2) I'm the author of IPP. If you have an input file that is giving you problems, send me the original file and what the expected output file should be. I'll see what I can do about fixing the problem. In general, IPP should be able take any input file and export it to any desired file format regardless of the settings of the original or desired settings of the output file. ... View more

It's been awhile since I've really looked at this stuff but there are some odd things with SolidColor etc... I know I had seen some odd things when using one Color Profile or another. Good luck in working through this thicket. ... View more

Try this: var clr = new SolidColor; clr.rgb.red = 1; clr.rgb.green = 1; clr.rgb.blue = 1; //... other stuff app.activeDocument.selection.fill(clr); ... View more

Selection.fill() requires a SolidColor object, not an RGBColor. Given this, you should be able to figure out a solution . ... View more

To whom should I send the flowers? ... View more