Inventsable  wrote Do you know about pravdomil's types? It's what Silly V is referring to, writing in Typescript can compile down to allow quite a bit of ES2018 (with exception to certain array functions like forEach/filter and template literals): I have the correct tsconfig file here if you're interested! Just npm install @pravdomil/types-for-adobe (or types-for-adobe), then assuming you use VSCode hit Control+Shift+B and run the tsc:watch command on this tsconfig file. Write all your scripts in the .ts file, but point to the .jsx for use in CEP. It auto-compiles to .jsx every time you save and gives you DOM autocomplete! Pretty slick Oh, shoot, that's cool!!! Thanks for sharing!!! I've been super busy this last week+ with some life BS ... Sorry to not have responded sooner. This looks really cool though! THanks so much for sharing/elaborating. I can't wait to use it! I'm sure I'll be back here, on in a new thread, with more questions. Thanks @Inventsable! I really appreciate the help! ... View more

Awwww! Well, if you do ever put it up, shoot me a link! I feel you on bumbling. I've only had to do one thing like that, and i sucked! Hehe. Though, I'm sure your presentation went better than you are thinking ... Aren't we all our own worst critics. ... View more

Silly-V  wrote Well, nowadays you should be aware: future ExtendScript development after dropped support for ESTK will be done via a VSCode ExtendScript Debugger extension. (At 062019 version 1.1.1) It's a little more cumbersome than the toolkit, and lack an OMV without some extra TypeScript stuff the pros (like you) use   but when working on a Mac or a newer version of Windows that doesn't support old ESTK, it's alright. There's also the issue of funky debugging - where the thing just aborts instead of stopping at a breakpoint - unless you step into.. etc - I've just been too busy and grateful for it working as well as it does. Oh, wow! Ok, I am really out of the loop. In a way, I'm kinda relieved that I can just use VSCode ... My current workflow involves having VSCode open and then jumping over to ESTK to hit compile and/or do breakpoints/view the OMV. I would much prefer to stay in an editor that's easier on my aging eyeballs. Thanks so much for the heads up! I just installed the plugin and I am looking forward to playing with it this weekend. Oh, Silly-V, did I read above that you presented at a conference? Googling ... Events Looks cool!!! Did you get a recording of it? Happy Friday! ... View more

Silly-V  wrote Hey there! It's been a while, look who's back! Also, ExtendScript has 'extras' such as - it supports triple quotes which act almost like template strings, except no normal syntax highlighter for javascript would recognize them, as well as xml inside of javascript! Hey Silly-V​! It's great to hear from you! Yah, I've been afk from doing Illustrator scripting for (I think) a few years now (how time flies!) I've recently gotten back into Illustrator more again, and got inspired to write some jsx. My last project was a Nodejs module (several of them) and it's spoiled me to the ways of ES2018+ ... Anyway, I'm happy to be back in the game. I do love Illustrator the most out of all the Adobe products. Thanks for the tips on the triple quotes! That's pretty interesting. Also, I will have to play with the XML syntax. I'm looking forward to dusting off my brain cells and creating some new plugins! I'll see you around the forums! Thanks to both of you Ten A​ and Silly-V​, I really appreciate your help!!! ... View more

Awesome, thanks Ten, I really appreciate the help! Also, thanks for the linkage ... That's very helpful. Looks like I'll stick to es3 and be happy with it. Thanks again! ... View more

CarlosCanto  wrote hmm great question, from what I've seen, it's a norm not adding much. If they do add something, then it'll be ready to be used and be discovered by us as soon as the new version is out. It won't be added to the scripting guide and it won't be announced. Ahhh, I see! Ok, fair enough Adobe... It's a waiting game at this point. Thanks again for your help Carlos, it's very much appreciated! ... View more

Thanks CarlosCanto​! That's too bad it's not accessible via the Illustrator API. Is this a common thing when Illustrator comes out with new features? How long does it take for a new feature to reveal/make public it's API layer? Thanks so much for taking the time to help! ... View more

Ah, cool! You were right Marie! I just had to limit the grep to applied the character style: Awesome! Thanks again for the help Marie and Ariel! ... View more

Marie_D  wrote I think you should be able to perform the GREP search and replace as explained in the article, but just remember to include the character style sheet you have created for underlining hyperlinks in the 'Find' field. Oh yah? Shoot, that would be cool! I only played with it a little, and couldn't think of a way to add discretionary line break after each character of the matched grep. I was late at night though, so I'll give it another shot and report back my findings! Thank you so much for your help and motivation! ... View more

Marie_D  wrote This tip might also help: https://indesignsecrets.com/breakinglines.php Thanks Marie! That totally helped!!! Unfortunately, I need to only apply the discretionary line breaks to URLs. Can I do this with a character style? I already have a character style that underlines hyperlinks .... Perhaps it could also apply a discretionary line break to each character in the matched character style? I'm almost thinking Hyperlink Pro plugin might do trick. On the other hand, I just need a simple script that will insert discretionary line breaks for URLs only ... I'm decent at scripting, so it seems like a simple jsx script would do the trick. Again though, not to sound like a broken record, but I don't remember having this issue in previous versions of Indesign. Hahah. Thanks for your help Marie, I greatly appreciate it! ... View more

TᴀW  wrote My https://www.id-extras.com/products/hyperlinkpro  (not free) will insert the discretionary line breaks for you, and in the optimal place from a spacing point of view, plus it respects the Chicago Manual's rules about where URLs are allowed to be broken. May be worth checking out. Thanks Ariel! I will check it out! In this case, I just need the url to break irrespective of any conventions... basically, I don't want my text to disappear and am not worried about rules per se. Don't get me wrong, I used to work at a newspaper so I am all for rules, but in this case, I just want only the URLs to force wrap ... They should always start on a newline, so the part of the URL that is problematic is the bits after the TLD/.com. Oddly enough, I swear that I never noticed this problem with Indesign in recent previous versions. Strange. Thanks for your help!!! ... View more

Not sure if anyone else will find this helpful, but I wrote a macOS nodejs script to help me automate the symlinking of folders which can be found here: GitHub - mhulse/slinky-cli: Reverse Symlink CLI It's not perfect, but gets the job done for me. Use at your own risk! ... View more

Thanks JJMack, I really appreciate the help! I'm currently working on a macOS-specific CLI (written in NodeJS) to help me do the symlinking: GitHub - mhulse/slinky-cli: Reverse Symlink CLI It's not perfect, but it's getting the job done. Thanks to you, and Stephen, for all of the help! I greatly appreciate it! ... View more

Interesting! I did see this from the article you linked to (thanks again for the link): If an .atn file is saved to the default application/program presets folder as above, the action will be listed and available in the action palette menu. This allows an action to be easily restored if it is removed without having to manually find and load the original .atn file. If there are many actions, this menu may become unwieldy due the length of the added action sets. Note: by storing saved action .atn files in this “expected” default application/program location they will not be available to the built in preset migration export tool (edit menu, presets, export/import presets). For the built-in export/import presets feature to list saved actions for migration, they should be saved to a non-default location – the user level preset folder for actions: That's good to know for sure! One difference I have seen in Illustrator (when comparing a similar two locations), swatches (for example), show up under "User Defined/" in the swatches fly-out menu (when one puts custom swatches in the User's presets directory) vs. being at the top level (when putting custom swatches in the Application's swatches directory). Anyway, I'll experiment to learn more. Thanks for tip/nudge in right direction(s). ... View more

JJMack  wrote mickyhulse   wrote Noticing that the "Scripts" folder is not located in the user's directory, but instead in the Application's folder: Again I use windows. Adobe does the same on windows scripts are only in  Each Photoshop version Adobe's Application install tree in \Presets\Scripts\... However, you can link your own Scripts tree in the folder.  I link  all  install Adobe Photoshop versions \Presets\Scripts\ to my Photoshop Scripts tree.  All version use a common copy of my Scripts add-ons.   I do the same for Plug-ins. However some third party plug-ins must be installed int Adobe's plugins folder because of the way ther are coded. Interesting! I think I understand. I hate to keep bugging you, but how exactly do you link all Photoshop version to your custom scripts? Would it be hard to give a specific example of this? I am also interested in seeing a specific example of the Plug-ins linking. Maybe you could provide absolute paths and explain your process in a little more detail? I am sure it would not only help me, but others too! If you are too busy to post more details, I completely understand. No pressure from me. Either way, thanks for the tips/advice! I am experimenting now. With that said, as it stands currently, my eyes are on these common directories: Adobe Photoshop 2017 ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Presets Actions Brushes Color Swatches Gradients Keyboard Shortcuts Patterns Styles /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Plug-ins/ Plug-ins Seems like those are the most common directories I would want to access. Thanks all! ... View more

Stephen_A_Marsh  wrote Prepression: Photoshop – Custom Action File Backup & Migration Awesome and interesting. That post helped! Thanks Stephen! ... View more

Looks like there could be some potentially interesting stuff located here: ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator 21 Settings/en_US/ Just posting here for future reference. ... View more

Ok, here's my master list of most-to-moderately common directories … Adobe Illustrator 21/CC 2017: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator 21/en_US/ Swatches Symbols Plug-ins New Document Profiles Graphic Styles Brushes /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Presets.localized/en_US/ Actions Charts Keyboard Shortcuts Scripts Workspaces /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Cool Extras.localized/en_US/ Templates /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Support Files/Resources/en_US/Arrowheads.ai /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Support Files/Resources/en_US/Bevels.ai … See anything that I'm missing? ... View more

Looks like for Photoshop, the recommended location for presets is in the user's home directory: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Presets Though, not Scripts. Apparently that goes into the Application's preset directory. Looks like the same is true for Illustrator (Scripts in the app folder). Though, what about: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC 2017/Cool Extras.localized/en_US/Templates Looks like that's the only location for custom templates? I think those are good examples as two why I asked this question in first place. Stuff has always seemed to be spread out over the OS for when it comes to customizations. I'd love to see or create an official list of what goes where. ... View more

Noticing that the "Scripts" folder is not located in the user's directory, but instead in the Application's folder: /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Presets/Scripts This is a case in point as to why I asked this question … It has always seemed like Adobe apps make you install custom stuff in not the most logical of locations … Spread out over the OS. I guess if it's just the scripts folder that is a "one off", then that's fine. I'm just really wanting a a list of what's where (I don't really care about the why). ... View more

Related question, but where do custom "Document Types" go? I don't see a preset child directory for that. ... View more

So, just found this article: That seems to suggest that I use the more inaccessible ~/Library/... location. Looking at the two directories in detail: I see now that the one on the right (my user's directory) has a bunch of empty directories. I think this is what you were saying JJMack, the "user" preset's directory is the one that I should customize as it does not have all of the "default" presets. Ok, I think that helps to clear up the question of where do I put things. Looking at Illustrator, I don't think it's as clear cut. ... View more

Thanks JJMack​, I really appreciate the reply/help! It look like you use a Mac so I do not know where they are on Mac.  For each version of Photoshop you have installed there are two presets folder one where you your Photoshop Application is installed in Photoshop in its install tree.  The second is where Macox keeps users ID Application data Each User the uses a version of Photoshop will have a Adobe Photoshop version ApplicationData tree fot the user.  In the tree you will find the User Photoshop preferences and a Presets folder fot their presets. Yup, Mac guy here. So, it sounds like /Applications/Adobe Photoshop CC 2017/Presets is the best place to put my customizations? Is everything that I need to customize found within the presets directory? For Illustrator, it varies a little bit: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC YYYY/Presets.localized/... /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC YYYY/Cool Extras.localized/... /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC YYYY/Support Files/... But appears to be contained within the Application directory? On Windows it the same story.  However you can save and load your stuff  from any location.  So I do not use all of the preset folders Adobe set up for my user ID  one for every version of Photoshop installed.  Instead I choose  my own folders for my add-ons and use them in all installed version of Photoshop installed.  It easier to maintain them that way for I always have several version of Photoshop installed. God, I wish I could do that on a Mac! I need to test and see if Adobe apps on a Mac will follow symlinks. I think the last time I checked they don't. It would be soooooo helpful to have all of these presets, for each version of an Adobe app, located in one centralized and easy to access location … This is the problem I'm trying to solve. I really hate digging around to find all these directories each time I have a new script or swatch file. And then having to mirror that on my other computers. Optimally, I'd love to have all of these preset directories in my Dropbox, and then use that as a centralized/synchronized location for all my computers. Anyway, thanks for the help JJ! ... View more

Wow, JET, thank you! I am reading and re-reading your post now. I really appreciate you taking the time to respond and correct my thinking/understanding. I'll post back if I have questions (which, I am sure I will). ... View more

Thanks for linkages srishtib8795206​, I really appreciate the help. Reading through/watching links now. I did recently buy the OPO plugin. I'm looking forward to using it. ... View more