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pltsmt
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September 20, 2011
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GIF Format Options

  • September 20, 2011
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I'm trying to add GIF settings for Save for Web and Devices to a script I have.  It has 2 different areas for FileSaveOptions (shown below).  Can someone please tell me how or where do I tell the script to incorporate each of the settings in the attached example?


self.gifTransparency = true;

self.gifInterlaced = false;

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case "gif": {

      saveOpts.transparency = toBoolean(fsOpts.gifTransparency);

      saveOpts.interlaced = toBoolean(fsOpts.gifInterlaced);

      saveOpts._convertToIndexed = true;

      saveOpts._flatten = true;

      saveOpts._8Bit = true;

      break;

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Correct answer Michael_L_Hale

Yes, you can set lossy with the Object Model.

var gifOptions = new ExportOptionsSaveForWeb();
gifOptions.colorReduction = ColorReductionType.SELECTIVE;// the default  enumeration
gifOptions.PNG8 = true;// needed to force index mode
gifOptions.colors = 256;// the default value
gifOptions.dither = Dither.DIFFUSION;
gifOptions.ditherAmount = 100;// the default value
gifOptions.transparency = true;// default = false
gifOptions.lossy = 10;// default = 0;

Just to be clear, once you have the code from the scriptlistener log you can use that in your script.

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Michael_L_Hale
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September 21, 2011

You can not access all of those options using the Object Model. You would have to install and use the scriptlistener plug-in. The options the Object Model's ExportOptionsSaveForWeb doesn't have are convert profile, metadata, and resize.

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pltsmtAuthor
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September 21, 2011

Does that mean that I couldn't even set 'lossy' to zero any place in the script?

JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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September 21, 2011

pltsmt wrote:

Does that mean that I couldn't even set 'lossy' to zero any place in the script?

No it means you need to have use the scriptlistener plug-in to record some action manager code for a save for web operation with the setting you want to use. You will see some hard coded values in the code with the valuse you used in the dialog.  If you want you can replace these hard coded values with variable and make a function out of the scriptlistener code and use that function in you javascript code.  The plug-in is sort of like the action palette without controls with a stuck record button. Every thing you do in Photoshop that is recordable will be recorded into two files on your desktop one im VBS the other javascript....

JJMack
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