Request: Add Scale Styles option to "resize image" command in AppleScript

[leo.r]

The "resize image" command in AppleScript performs the Image Size command in Photoshop.

However, with the AppleScript's command, the Scale Styles option is not enabled. Which, obviously, leads to undesired results in many cases.

Unless I'm missing something, there's no way to enable the Scale Styles option in AppleScript.

So I hope Adobe can add this parameter to the "resize image" command in AppleScript.


Thanks,
Leo

[Chuck Uebele · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately, I don't know AppleScript, nor do I have a Mac. However, with Javascript and scriptListener, you can record to scale layer styles. Does AppleScript work with scriptListener? Here is the javascript code that shows the scale styles:

var idImgS = charIDToTypeID( "ImgS" );
    var desc764 = new ActionDescriptor();
    var idWdth = charIDToTypeID( "Wdth" );
    var idPrc = charIDToTypeID( "#Prc" );
    desc764.putUnitDouble( idWdth, idPrc, 50.000000 );
    var idscaleStyles = stringIDToTypeID( "scaleStyles" );
    desc764.putBoolean( idscaleStyles, true );//scale styles here
    var idCnsP = charIDToTypeID( "CnsP" );
    desc764.putBoolean( idCnsP, true );
    var idIntr = charIDToTypeID( "Intr" );
    var idIntp = charIDToTypeID( "Intp" );
    var idbicubicSharper = stringIDToTypeID( "bicubicSharper" );
    desc764.putEnumerated( idIntr, idIntp, idbicubicSharper );
executeAction( idImgS, desc764, DialogModes.NO );

[leo.r]

Thanks Chuck,

I can run it from AppleScript and it works!

Better than nothing - but I hope that Adobe will listen and give us the Scale Styles option as a regular AppleScript parameter.

[Stephen Marsh]

It is the same for JavaScript, this option is not available using the standard reference code.

Untested Idea: As AppleScript can call JS code, you would need to incorporate the desired chunk of JS code into your AS code. You can put the script "inline" or reference an external JS file.

[leo.r]

Thanks - yes I tried it and I can run it from AppleScript

[Stephen Marsh]

Can you please share your working AS/JS code? As you will see from below, I have been trying to work this out for you, with only limited success...

[Stephen Marsh]

OK, minor progress...

I can't get a reference to an external js/jsx file to work.

I can get a simple single inline line of code to run:

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"
	activate
	do javascript "alert('Hello Photoshop!');"
end tell

or something a little bit more exciting (select all layers menu command):

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"
	activate
	do javascript "app.runMenuItem(stringIDToTypeID('selectAllLayers')); "
end tell

However my attempts at getting multi-line Script Listener recorded AM code to work have failed with AS compiler errors.

[leo.r]

you need to escape all quotes in the script. as to path to external file then i couldn't make it work either. tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019" set js to "var idImgS = charIDToTypeID( \"ImgS\" ); var desc764 = new ActionDescriptor(); var idWdth = charIDToTypeID( \"Wdth\" ); var idPrc = charIDToTypeID( \"#Prc\" ); desc764.putUnitDouble( idWdth, idPrc, 50.000000 ); var idscaleStyles = stringIDToTypeID( \"scaleStyles\" ); desc764.putBoolean( idscaleStyles, true );//scale styles here var idCnsP = charIDToTypeID( \"CnsP\" ); desc764.putBoolean( idCnsP, true ); var idIntr = charIDToTypeID( \"Intr\" ); var idIntp = charIDToTypeID( \"Intp\" ); var idbicubicSharper = stringIDToTypeID( \"bicubicSharper\" ); desc764.putEnumerated( idIntr, idIntp, idbicubicSharper ); executeAction( idImgS, desc764, DialogModes.NO );" --do javascript js end tell

[leo.r]

umm i don't know what's up with the Reply function on this forum... I'll try to repost.

[leo.r]

you need to escape all quotes in the script.

as to path to external file then i couldn't make it work either.

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"

set js to "var idImgS = charIDToTypeID( \"ImgS\" );
var desc764 = new ActionDescriptor();
var idWdth = charIDToTypeID( \"Wdth\" );
var idPrc = charIDToTypeID( \"#Prc\" );
desc764.putUnitDouble( idWdth, idPrc, 50.000000 );
var idscaleStyles = stringIDToTypeID( \"scaleStyles\" );
desc764.putBoolean( idscaleStyles, true );//scale styles here
var idCnsP = charIDToTypeID( \"CnsP\" );
desc764.putBoolean( idCnsP, true );
var idIntr = charIDToTypeID( \"Intr\" );
var idIntp = charIDToTypeID( \"Intp\" );
var idbicubicSharper = stringIDToTypeID( \"bicubicSharper\" );
desc764.putEnumerated( idIntr, idIntp, idbicubicSharper );
executeAction( idImgS, desc764, DialogModes.NO );"

--do javascript js
end tell

[leo.r]

P.S. oops obviously uncomment 'do javascript js' in the end

[Stephen Marsh]

Team effort! Thanks Chuck for the ScriptListener AM code! Thank you leo for letting me know about escaping the quotes (Despite using a Mac most of the time, I know very little about AS).

[Stephen Marsh]

UPDATE: After some searching, I managed to get an externally referenced .jsx to run when called from an AppleScript!

Call Javascript function from external file with Applescript

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"
activate
do javascript of file "/Users/username/Desktop/alert.jsx"
end tell

Or slightly different syntax to call the external script, here I have used different path delimiters, both types are valid and this makes no difference to the call:

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CC 2019"
activate
do javascript (file "Users:username:Desktop:alert.jsx")
end tell

[joshuadwagner]

Adding to this:

I found that the following would work for passing in arguments

JavaScript

function testFunc(t) {
 alert('argument one: ' + t[0] + '\r' + 'argument two: ' + t[1]);
}

testFunc(arguments);

AppleScript

tell application id "com.adobe.Photoshop"
activate
do javascript of file "pathToFile" with arguments {"foo", "bar"}
end tell