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January 30, 2008
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Convert photoshop action to applescript?

  • January 30, 2008
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Hi all. I hope you might be able to help me out. I'm looking for a way to convert photoshop actions i've created to applescript. I can't seem to find any sources to do this. I did find a script to convert actions to javascript, but as i don't have a good working knowledge of JS it's not as helpful as Applescript would be.

Thanks in advance for any help pointing me in the right direction

-andrew
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May 5, 2008
Super! I'll check it out! Thanks!
Participant
April 26, 2008
Andrew,
In your first post you mention that you did find a script to convert actions to javascript. Could you please share that method of convertion since I'm looking for a way to convert actions to a Photoshop javascript?

Thanks,
Mathias
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April 26, 2008
Mathias_T@adobeforums.com wrote:
> Andrew,
> In your first post you mention that you did find a script to convert actions to javascript. Could you please share that method of convertion since I'm looking for a way to convert actions to a Photoshop javascript?

I'm not Andrew, but I did write this:

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

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Participant
February 18, 2008
hello there.
can any one be of help, i have jsut finished my suite of photoshop actions for screen printing eg simulated process color actiion ,index color action ,spot color action ,halftone action and alot more .
the problem is sometimes when i run the action especially the color separation action ,command that i ask the to invert dont and sometimes files invert that are not mean to ,can some one help me with a solotion?
will let u guys tryout once i am done.
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January 31, 2008
xBytor,
Thanks for writing back. I kinda figured that was the case. Your script has proved most helpful. But I was holding out hope there'd be an equivalent script to go to AppleScript. I was able to get most of my bigger actions working today with a little cut and paste and edit here and there.

Carl,
While I appreciate your feed back. the spirit of the post was to have a method of exporting the pre existing actions in a quick and easy fashion. I surmise that eventually i'll write them from scratch, but sometimes, as i'm sure you know, in a production environment free time is a bit of a joke.
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January 30, 2008
Write the AppleScripts from scratch.

Carl.
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January 30, 2008
Andrew_Mannone@adobeforums.com wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to convert photoshop actions i've created to applescript. I can't seem to find any sources to do this. I did find a script to convert actions to javascript, but as i don't have a good working knowledge of JS it's not as helpful as Applescript would be.

At the core of an Action is series of executeAction invocations that correspond
to the steps of the Action. This is what the ScriptingListener output
essentially is, as described in the Action Manager section of the PSCS3
Scripting Guide.

There is no Action Manager API for AS. Your only option in AS is to call JS
code, as is described in the Scripting Guide. You can either use the code
generated by the ScriptingListener plugin, or you can use my Action->JavaScript
translation script (which you've already found). To the best of my knowledge,
there are no other solutions if you program in AS.

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