How to rasterize smart object layers with scripting

[Ramiro Araujo]

Hi!

I'm pretty new on photoshop scripting. I see there's a rather obscure way I can't even understand 😅.

I've tried iterating though layers, detecting that it's a smart layer, but I can't seem to raster it. Ex, I tried this:

if(layerRef.kind == LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT) {
layerRef.rasterize(LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
}

And I'm getting:

Runtime Error: Error Code# 1227: Illegal argument - argument 1
- Wrong type of enumerated value @ file '' [line:0, col:NaN

Eventually, I would like to be able to raster smart objects, and then re-create that raster content into a smartobject again.

For the moment, I don't care much about performance, I just want this to work as readable as possible.

Thanks!!

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

Have you read about the rasterize function in the documentation?

Use instead

rasterize (LayerKind.SMARTOBJECT)
valid argument, e.g.

rasterize (RasterizeType.ENTIRELAYER)

[Ramiro Araujo]

haha! that made it work! 

I've check the Photoshop Scripting Guide and Photoshop JavaScript Reference, I still don't see much info about the rasterize method.

Any help or directions on searching for creating a smart object from a given layer? 🙂

[r-bin]

Try reading about the ScriptingListener plug-in here, or look for more yourself.

http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/photoshop-script-listener.html

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/downloadable-plugins-and-content.html