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steffenunger
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May 17, 2013
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action or script to move selection to specified layer?

  • May 17, 2013
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Hi all,

i have a piece of art on "Layer 1" that i need to shrink and duplicate to "Layer 2". I do this many many times a day so i was hoping someone could help me with a script? The two layers are always named the same. I'm working in CS5.


Thanks a lot!

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

here you go

var scale = 50; // 50 means 50%, change this to your needs
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var ilayer = idoc.layers['Layer 2'];
var sel = idoc.selection;
var selen = sel.length;
for (i=0; i<selen; i++) {
    var pgItem = sel.duplicate();
    pgItem.resize (scale, scale, true, true, true, true, scale, Transformation.CENTER)
    pgItem.move(ilayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
}

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CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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May 17, 2013

here you go

var scale = 50; // 50 means 50%, change this to your needs
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var ilayer = idoc.layers['Layer 2'];
var sel = idoc.selection;
var selen = sel.length;
for (i=0; i<selen; i++) {
    var pgItem = sel.duplicate();
    pgItem.resize (scale, scale, true, true, true, true, scale, Transformation.CENTER)
    pgItem.move(ilayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
}
pixxxelschubser
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pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 17, 2013

Hello CarlosCanto,

one question:

why you use the move-methode instead:

//...
for (i=0; i<selen; i++) {
    var pgItem = sel.duplicate(ilayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
    pgItem.resize (scale, scale, true, true, true, true, scale, Transformation.CENTER)
}

What advantages or disadvantages are there?


regards

CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 18, 2013

Hi pixxxel, I don't think there's a difference, I typed that without thinking, that was the first thing it came to my head...

...but one thing is true about my writing style, if a line starts to get too long to the point where I have to scroll left and right to see all of it, I try to break it as much as I can to make it fit to my screen, this is not the case, but if it was, I would have...

...changed this

pgItem.resize (scale, scale, true, true, true, true, scale, Transformation.CENTER);

to this...

var refpoint = Transformation.CENTER;
pgItem.resize (scale, scale, true, true, true, true, scale, refpoint);
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