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_troyk9_
Participant
January 29, 2009
Question

Atn. Editor INfo Needed

  • January 29, 2009
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I would just like to know what I can use to edit Atn scripts. I had noticed that they are accessing parts of Vista that they are not allowed to. I was able to make a change withing PS but have no clue how it happened LOL. Wordpad and Notepad are useless and even tried a Hex editor but it leave little room to edit.

Thanks ion Advance
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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
January 30, 2009
Mr. Cox,

With experience the atn files are human readable and they can be edited with Xbytor's scripts. I know because I have done both.

Although I too wondered how something 'not allowed' was recorded in an action.

Mike
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_xbytor_
Known Participant
January 30, 2009
> Although I too wondered how something 'not allowed' was recorded in an action.

It was recorded on XP and then run on Vista. Large portions of the file system
that would normally be accessible to a non-admin user became read-only on the
upgrade to Vista. I suspect that the action in question ran into this new
security "feature".

This is one of the reasons that CSX has to be installed with PS running with
admin permissions.

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Chris Cox
Chris Cox
Legend
January 30, 2009
"I had noticed that they are accessing parts of Vista that they are not allowed to"

No. Actions (.atn files) can only use the user visible commands inside Photoshop.
The files are not human readable or human editable - and are not intended to be.
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_troyk9_Author
Participant
January 30, 2009
I have been double clicking in PS to make the changes but I thought there is an easier way with a larger editor
Thanks for your reply :)
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_xbytor_
Known Participant
January 29, 2009
troyk9@adobeforums.com wrote:
> I would just like to know what I can use to edit Atn scripts. I had noticed that they are accessing parts of Vista that they are not allowed to. I was able to make a change withing PS but have no clue how it happened LOL. Wordpad and Notepad are useless and even tried a Hex editor but it leave little room to edit.

You can't do any real editing of atn files directly. Load them into PS and make
the changes. Or convert them into XML, edit the XML, and convert them back.

http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ps-scripts/xtools/apps/ActionFileToJavascript.jsx
http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ps-scripts/xtools/apps/ActionToJavascript.jsx

http://ps-scripts.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/ps-scripts/xtools/apps/ActionFileFromXML.jsx

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