Adobe scripting: your visual blueprint for scripting in Photoshop and Illustrator

Adobe® Scripting......Page 1
Credits......Page 7
About the Author......Page 8
Author's Acknowledgements......Page 9
Table of Contents......Page 10
How to Use This Book......Page 16
SCRIPTING WITH PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 18
INSTALL SCRIPTING SUPPORT FOR PHOTOSHOP......Page 20
RUN A SAMPLE SCRIPT IN PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 22
STORING SCRIPTS......Page 23
UNDERSTANDING JAVASCRIPT SYNTAX......Page 24
UNDERSTANDING PROGRAMMING STYLE......Page 25
DECLARE VARIABLES......Page 26
USING OPERATORS......Page 28
INCREMENT AND DECREMENT A VARIABLE......Page 30
CONTROL PROGRAM FLOW USING CONDITIONALS......Page 32
USING ARRAYS......Page 34
USING WHILE LOOPS......Page 36
USING FOR LOOPS......Page 38
CREATE A FUNCTION......Page 40
PASS PARAMETERS TO A FUNCTION......Page 42
RETURN A VALUE FROM A FUNCTION......Page 44
USING OBJECTS, PROPERTIES, AND METHODS......Page 46
RETRIEVE A RANGE OF CHARACTERS FROM A STRING......Page 48
CONVERT A STRING INTO AN ARRAY......Page 50
COMMUNICATE WITH THE USER......Page 52
ADD COMMENTS......Page 53
UNDERSTANDING THE ADOBE SCRIPTING OBJECT MODEL......Page 54
UNDERSTANDING COORDINATE SYSTEMS IN PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 56
SET THE RULER UNITS IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 57
CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 58
CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 60
REFERENCE THE ACTIVE DOCUMENT IN PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 62
SWITCH BETWEEN OPEN DOCUMENTS......Page 63
MANIPULATE A DOCUMENT IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 64
USING THE DOCUMENT META- DATA IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 66
WORK WITH SELECTIONS IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 68
WORK WITH THE CLIPBOARD IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 70
CREATE A NEW ART LAYER IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 72
CREATE A NEW LAYER SET IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 74
MANIPULATE LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 76
DUPLICATE A LAYER IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 78
APPLY A FILTER TO A LAYER IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 79
CREATE A NEW LAYER IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 80
RETRIEVE A LIST OF VISIBLE LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 82
CREATE PATH ITEMS......Page 84
CREATE ELLIPSES......Page 86
CREATE RECTANGLES......Page 87
CREATE STARS AND POLYGONS......Page 88
DEFINE AND APPLY COLOR VALUES......Page 90
MANIPULATE PATH ITEMS......Page 92
WORK WITH SELECTIONS......Page 94
CREATE GROUPS......Page 96
CREATE AND PLACE SYMBOLS......Page 98
CREATE GRADIENTS......Page 100
EDIT A GRADIENT'S STOP POINTS......Page 102
WORKING WITH COMPOUND PATHS......Page 104
CREATE CLIPPING MASKS......Page 106
CREATE A TEXT LAYER......Page 108
RETRIEVE THE NAME OF A FONT......Page 110
SET THE FONT OF A TEXT ITEM......Page 112
CHANGE THE COLOR OF A TEXT ITEM......Page 113
CREATE A DROP SHADOW EFFECT......Page 114
ADD TEXT TO A DOCUMENT......Page 116
CREATE PATH AND AREA TEXT......Page 118
MANIPULATE PART OF A TEXT ITEM......Page 120
RETRIEVE A LIST OF AVAILABLE FONTS......Page 122
SET THE FONT OF A TEXT ITEM......Page 124
FLOW TEXT BETWEEN PATHS......Page 126
WRAP TEXT AROUND OTHER OBJECTS......Page 128
SET PARAGRAPH OPTIONS......Page 130
UNDERSTANDING THE FILE SYSTEM......Page 132
OPEN OR CREATE A FILE AND FOLDER......Page 134
SAVE THE ACTIVE DOCUMENT IN PHOTOSHOP AND ILLUSTRATOR......Page 136
RETRIEVE A LISTING OF FILES IN A FOLDER......Page 138
READ A FILE......Page 140
WRITE DATA TO A FILE......Page 142
PLACE A FILE IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 144
UNDERSTANDING VARIABLES AND DATASETS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 146
CREATE A TEXT STRING VARIABLE......Page 148
CREATE VISIBILITY AND LINKED FILE VARIABLES......Page 150
CREATE A NEW DATASET......Page 152
EXPORT AND IMPORT VARIABLE LIBRARIES......Page 154
EDIT A VARIABLE LIBRARY BY HAND......Page 156
SAVE A DOCUMENT AS PDF AND EPS FROM ILLUSTRATOR......Page 158
CREATE AN ILLUSTRATOR EXPORT OBJECT......Page 160
SAVE A JPEG FROM PHOTOSHOP......Page 162
PRINT A DOCUMENT FROM ILLUSTRATOR......Page 164
PRINT A DOCUMENT FROM PHOTOSHOP......Page 165
USING MODULAR SCRIPTING TECHNIQUES......Page 166
BATCH PROCESS OPEN DOCUMENTS......Page 168
BATCH PROCESS A DIRECTORY TREE......Page 170
REMOVE UNUSED SYMBOLS, SWATCHES, AND STYLES IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 172
CREATE PATTERNS USING MATH IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 174
CREATE A REPORT OF ALL FONTS IN AN ILLUSTRATOR DOCUMENT......Page 176
CREATE A REPORT OF ALL LINKED FILES IN AN ILLUSTRATOR DOCUMENT......Page 178
EXPORT FILES FROM DATASETS IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 180
CREATE MAILING LABELS FROM A TEXT FILE IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 182
EXPORT ALL VISIBLE LAYERS IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 184
CHANGE EVERY FONT IN A PHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT......Page 186
CREATE AN HTML GALLERY IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 188
RESIZE ALL IMAGES IN A FOLDER WITH PHOTOSHOP......Page 190
RECORD SCRIPTS FOR PHOTOSHOP WITH THE SCRIPTING LISTENER PLUG- IN......Page 192
MAKE SCRIPTING LISTENER CODE INTO FUNCTIONS FOR PHOTOSHOP......Page 194
USING JAVASCRIPT WITH PHOTOSHOP ACTIONS......Page 196
DETECT AND HANDLE ERRORS......Page 198
ENABLE THE JAVASCRIPT DEBUGGER IN PHOTOSHOP......Page 199
ENABLE THE JAVASCRIPT DEBUGGER IN ILLUSTRATOR......Page 200
USING THE DEBUGGER......Page 202
USING TRY-CATCH STATEMENTS......Page 204
THE APPLICATION OBJECT......Page 206
CONTAINER OBJECTS......Page 207
TEXT OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS......Page 214
EXPORT OPTIONS OBJECTS......Page 231
COMMON FEATURES OF PAGE ITEMS......Page 237
PATH ITEMS......Page 239
ILLUSTRATOR SCRIPTING CONSTANTS......Page 243
THE APPLICATION AND PREFERENCES OBJECTS......Page 246
DOCUMENT AND RELATED OBJECTS......Page 250
LAYER AND TEXT OBJECTS......Page 258
SAVE OPTIONS OBJECTS......Page 268
OPEN OPTIONS OBJECTS......Page 273
COLOR OBJECTS......Page 275
PHOTOSHOP SCRIPTING CONSTANTS......Page 277
WHAT'S ON THE CD-ROM......Page 282
USING THE E-VERSION OF THIS BOOK......Page 284
End-User License Agreement......Page 286
Index......Page 288