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...var dataFile = new File('~/desktop/exportData.txt');
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var dataStream = "";
// loop the paths in the document
for(var pathIndex =0; pathIndex<doc.pathItems.length;pathIndex++){
var pathItem = doc.pathItems[pathIndex];
// for every path output the name
dataStream = dataStream+pathItem.name+'\t';
for(var subPathIndex = 0;subPathIndex<pathItem.subPathItems.length;subPathIndex++){
for(var pointIndex = 0;pointIndex<pathItem.subPathItems[subPathIndex].pathPoi
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Can't yuo use
Export > Paths to Illustrator?
The image has 1000 x 1000 Pixels. The path starts and ends at 500,500.
The numerical values are not integer pixel coordinates but somewhat rounded.
The path in the image is not stroked (for clean information). It's a screenshot
of the unstroked path as shown in Photoshop.
Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann
Text file :
%!PS-Adobe-2.0
%%Creator: Adobe Photoshop(TM) Pen Path Export 7.0
%%Title: (Path.ai)
%%DocumentProcSets: Adobe_Illustrator_1.1 0 0
%%ColorUsage: Black&White
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 1000 1000
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 1000 1000
%AI3_Cropmarks: 0 0 1000 1000
%%DocumentPreview: None
%%EndComments
%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
Adobe_Illustrator_1.1 begin
n
%%EndSetup
0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 k
0 i 0 J 0 j 1 w 4 M []0 d
%%Note:
500.7495 499.2504 m
500.7495 899.5502 l
800.5996 899.5502 l
800.5996 100.4497 l
500.7495 499.2504 l
n
500.7495 499.2504 m
500.7495 899.5502 l
800.5996 899.5502 l
800.5996 100.4497 l
500.7495 499.2504 l
n
%%Trailer
%%EOF
I tried, sadly I get this error:
"The document is too big for the coordinate space of illustrator."
The problem is, in order to get the correct coordinates I need for the game map, I need to have a 16384x16384 sized image in photoshop with a pixel per cm of 1, which makes the document 270mb big.
Or is there another way to get coordinates of that size?
Maybe Photoshop isn't the right software for it, but I can't find anything else and I can do it manually in PS, it's just really slow, even if I could record mouse clicks based on the 16384x16384 image coordinates, that could work, but yeah. 
Well even if I do it purely in pixels and not cm, including the ruler, I still have the same problem.
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@JJMack, oh wow, that did the trick, beautiful. Is there any way to not limit it to a specific layer name? So it just chooses the active layer and exports the layer name too? Of to export multiple layer coordinates accompanied with their name?
This is a longshot, but it also wouldn't be possible to either create a new .txt file every time you run the script, besides overwriting the one it made the previous time, right? I can do a workaround with a file copying script, so it's not that big of a deal. Of course the most ideal would be to ADD into the same .txt, without replacing what you previously exported, but I doubt that's possible based on the scripts I've looked at.
Thanks so much!
Don't appologize, I was stuck on cm because I thought there wasn't another way, I only figured out after JJMack mentioned it, that it's possible purely by pixels.
First time working with coordinates, I'm in total new territory.
The above works great, except now I've stumbled across 2 new problems, sorry to make it so complicated!
What I have now, slightly tweaked what you gave me:
var dataFile = new File('~/desktop/exportData.txt');
var doc = app.activeDocument;
for(var c =0; c<doc.layers.length;c++){
doc.activeLayer= doc.layers
; }
var pathItem = doc.pathItems[doc.pathItems.length-1];
var dataStream = "";
for(var subPathIndex = 0;subPathIndex<pathItem.subPathItems.length;subPathIndex++){
for(var pointIndex = 0;pointIndex<pathItem.subPathItems[subPathIndex].pathPoints.length;pointIndex++){
dataStream = dataStream+doc.activeLayer.name+'\t';
dataStream = dataStream+pathItem.subPathItems[subPathIndex].pathPoints[pointIndex].anchor+'\t'+'\r';
dataStream = dataStream+'\r';
}
}
dataFile.open('w');
dataFile.write(dataStream);
dataFile.close();
But this outputs this:
Background 4222,0
Background 2963,-3550
Background 4330,-4210
Background 6450.3937,-2459
Background 6141,2387
Background 4834,2891
Background 3970,924
Which made me realize, that the paths aren't bound to a layer (It's been a while since I've used paths), so it'll just use the Background layer. There is no way around that, right? Since this script only targets layers, it'll ignore path names, which brings me to another question, is it possible to use the same thing, only for saved paths? So if you had 2 paths, one named P1 and the other P2, that it would display it like:
P1 4222,0
P1 2963,-3550
P1 4330,-4210
P1 6450.3937,-2459
P2 6141,2387
P2 4834,2891
P2 3970,924
And the other thing, because I'm using a loop now, which basically repeats the \r after ever coordinate, there isn't a way to collect all coordinates and display them in a chain, basically, and then using the \r after all the coordinates for one path is exported, before it moves on to the next path, or? Basically like the post previous to this, except with paths, instead of layers.
Thank you guys so much for helping me though, would been completely lost without it.
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