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erikdjohnson
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June 12, 2020
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Action opening all the files at once

  • June 12, 2020
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I have been using an ancient Photoshop7 to batch process 17000 PDF files per month.  That was great until something changed in PDF recently that now crashes the old photoshop.  So I installed Photoshop2020 and made the same action.  It opens the PDF, flattens it, adjusts levels, turns to paletted image and saves as gif in another folder and then closes it.  But when I run the action on 2020 it starts opening all the files at the same time and doesn't seem to do any of the other steps.  Opening 17K files at once is not going to work.  What has changed?  How can I make my simple action behave like I expect, processing 1 file at a time?

Thanks

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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June 13, 2020

I would suggest trying a batch processing script:

 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/master/PDF%20ProcessorII.jsx

 

or (there are both manual zip installation and automated zxp installation files available)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/Image%20Processor%20Pro/v3_2%20betas/

 

or

 

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Paul-Riggott/PS-Scripts/master/Picture%20Processor.jsx

 

info on installing here:

 

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html?m=1

 

 

 

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    erikdjohnsonAuthor
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    June 13, 2020

    Thanks, these scripts appear to be the solution!

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
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    June 12, 2020

    Please provide information including screenshots of the fully expanded Action in the Actions Panel and the Batch dialog. 

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    erikdjohnsonAuthor
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    June 12, 2020

    My problem with all the files opening at once was solved by Override Action "Open".  But that leads me to the big problem.  Override Action "Save As" isn't working with PDF sourced files.  This used to work in ancient photoshops but not now in 2020.  I have just spent a long time with tech support and it seems to me to be a bug.  All my files save as the filemame I prototyped the action with, instead of overriding with the filename of the source file.  I think I have to find old photoshop that is new enough to open these PDFs but not have this bug.

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    erikdjohnsonAuthor
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    June 12, 2020

     

     

    JJMack
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    JJMackCommunity Expert
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    June 12, 2020

    It sounds like you may not have a close step in you action after the save. So the document batch opens for you action remain open in Photoshop after you actions finish processing a document. Or more than one document is opened for a PDF for it had several pages. PDF is more a Acrobat file than a Photoshop image file.  Are .Gif file saved?

    JJMack
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