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alexGilvarry
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September 26, 2012
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Possible to run scripts without opening photoshop?

  • September 26, 2012
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I'm a beginner at scripting in photoshop, and am just barely starting to read the Javascript Scripting Reference. But before I get too deep into this, I am wondering if it is possible to run a photoshop script without actually opening the program. I'm trying to automate an overnight process that exports a Jpeg from another program, and would then resize the images using photoshop scripting. Is this even possible? I've done a bit of scripting with illustrator and I it seemed like I always had to do any scripting in the program.

Thanks for any help!

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Paul Riggott
Paul Riggott
Inspiring
September 26, 2012

I don't think anyone has got that working fully, see:-

http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4688&sid=1dc939feab27b3c898cce0d26c87410c

But, as you are working with JPEGs it might be better trying this with Bridge.

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Michael_L_Hale
Inspiring
September 26, 2012

I would say with javascript the answer is no. It runs with Photoshop as the host app and needs Photoshop to be running(open). There is a 'viewless' document mode in javascript but you have to work with that kind of document with Action Manager( it is not exposed to the Photoshop Object Model ).

There are command line app like imagemagick that migjht do what you need( if Paul's suggestion of using Bridge doesn't help ).

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