Cross-DOM API and/or Techniques for simple image manipulation

[_Joshua_Kifer_]

Am I correct in assuming that Cross-DOM API calls presume the target application is running? That is, these calls are not out to a "shared" library so to speak, but actually communication between two running apps.

Assuming that is the case, is there any way, within Bridge itself, to do simple manipulations on files, such as scaling, and file type conversion. Am I required to have photoshop running to do this?

[_Leonardo_Agosti_]

Not sure on which platform you are using, and hoping it is not for hires/hiquality purposes, but you could use one of the many engines, for example the AppleScript Graphic Core.

If you want/have to use PhotoShop, for what I know it has to be running.

Bye!

[_Georg_Duemlein_]

If you use BridgeTalk to call the functions in the other application the application will be started if it is not running.

Georg