Applescript support in Creative Cloud

Report · Mar 20, 2019

Can any Applescripters out there tell me their experiences upgrading from CS5 to the current Creative Cloud versions of InDesign, InCopy, Photoshop and Illustrator?

I have numerous workflows at this publishing house, and if the upgrade requires extensive rescripting, or worse if scripting is not as robust in CC, that will be a factor in whether we upgrade or move on.

Thanks!

Report · Apr 03, 2019

I'm not getting a reassuring feeling from the response.

Report · Apr 03, 2019

I've been waiting to test on Mojave and CC 2019. Now I'm on Sierra 10.12.6 and CC 2018, which were upgraded from Mavericks 10.9.5 and CS6 (and then to Sierra/CC 2017). I was able to convert all InDesign and Photoshop scripts without too much fuss, but most of my scripts are within FMP, so I could search/replace en masse. For example, using

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"

everywhere saved having to change from "Adobe InDesign CS6" to "Adobe InDesign CC 2017" to Adobe InDesign CC 2018".

IIRC, there were some adjustments needed for referring to/naming frames, and more use of whose clauses and 'item 1 of" qualifiers for specificity.

But on the whole, everything works on Sierra/CC 2018 as it did in Mavericks/CS6. Mojave's automation requirements and restrictions have me most worried.