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Near the top where you set the ruler add these lines.
var startColor = app.backgroundColor;
if(startColor.rgb.hexValue != 'FFFFFF'){
var white = new SolidColor();
white.rgb.hexValue = 'FFFFFF';
app.backgroundColor = white;
}
and at the bottom add this line
if(white != undefined) app.backgroundColor = startColor;
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I have a need for this script as well. Is this the entire script? If not, can you post the complete script?
I just need to increase either the canvas width (as white area for the added width/height) or the canvas height to match the longest side of an image so they they are perfectly square. No cropping or reduction in image sizes. These are product images on white background.
Is this the full script?
var startColor = app.backgroundColor;
if(startColor.rgb.hexValue != 'FFFFFF'){
var white = new SolidColor();
white.rgb.hexValue = 'FFFFFF';
app.backgroundColor = white;
}
var savedRuler= app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
var w = app.activeDocument.width;
var h = app.activeDocument.height;
if(w>h) app.activeDocument.resizeCanvas (w, w, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
if(w<h) app.activeDocument.resizeCanvas (h, h, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
//if w==h already square
app.preferences.rulerUnits = savedRuler;
if(white != undefined) app.backgroundColor = startColor;
So I went ahead and tried the script I posted previously, and it works great for my needs. It even works great saved as a step in an action. However, when I try to batch run this action on a group of images in a folder (from bridge), the process is interrupted for every single image with the following dialogue box. I'm actually not sure what to put in here manually anyway, but the main question is "why" is this popping up when I run as batch, but not when I open an image and then run the action? How can I suppress the dialogue and have it work in batch mode just like when I manually run the action?
Hopefully this will help someone down the road. Here is my final script that works in batch mode from bridge:
var startColor = app.backgroundColor;
if(startColor.rgb.hexValue != 'FFFFFF'){
var white = new SolidColor();
white.rgb.hexValue = 'FFFFFF';
app.backgroundColor = white;
}
var savedRuler= app.preferences.rulerUnits;
app.displayDialogs = DialogModes.NO;
app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.PIXELS;
var w = app.activeDocument.width;
var h = app.activeDocument.height;
if(w>h) app.activeDocument.resizeCanvas (w, w, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
if(w<h) app.activeDocument.resizeCanvas (h, h, AnchorPosition.MIDDLECENTER);
//if w==h already square
app.preferences.rulerUnits = savedRuler;
if(white != undefined) app.backgroundColor = startColor;
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