Question
First Attempt to Bridge from InDesign to Photoshop
My client has provided hundreds of Word documents that have embedded images in them (along with text to serve as a legend).
I'm uncomfortable at the thought of working with these images as embedded images in InDesign -- for one thing, I might need to touch-up some of them -- so I'm thinking that this is a job for a bridging script.
Although maybe it's really just one or more InDesign scripts with one of them passing off a script to Photoshop. I'm thinking that the Photoshop script will just create a new document from the clipboard and save it in a specific folder with a specific name, both provided in the script.
So, that ought to be dead easy. I don't even want it to pass a "done" message back to InDesign, although I suppose I need to watch out if I'm using the clipboard as a mechaism for passing information -- I don't want InDesign passing the next request before the first clipboard has been processed, for example.
But since InDesign knows where the file is to be saved, it can wait for it to appear before kicking off the next script.
Thinking out loud here while I get some other stuff done.
Does this script already exist as an example somewhere?
Dave
I'm uncomfortable at the thought of working with these images as embedded images in InDesign -- for one thing, I might need to touch-up some of them -- so I'm thinking that this is a job for a bridging script.
Although maybe it's really just one or more InDesign scripts with one of them passing off a script to Photoshop. I'm thinking that the Photoshop script will just create a new document from the clipboard and save it in a specific folder with a specific name, both provided in the script.
So, that ought to be dead easy. I don't even want it to pass a "done" message back to InDesign, although I suppose I need to watch out if I'm using the clipboard as a mechaism for passing information -- I don't want InDesign passing the next request before the first clipboard has been processed, for example.
But since InDesign knows where the file is to be saved, it can wait for it to appear before kicking off the next script.
Thinking out loud here while I get some other stuff done.
Does this script already exist as an example somewhere?
Dave
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