Action for saving scripts to a folder
We need to create an action in Photoshop CS5 on Windows 7. The action is simply, it just needs to save a file to a particular folder on a file server, then close the file. This script will need to be able to given to several people in the building, all using Windows and with the file server mapps to the same drive (X).
Yet when I try to record this script, it wants to save the file with the filename. How can we avoid this, i.e. just create a script that saves a file in a folder, without saving it with the name of the file that was used to record the script?
FYI, discovered that if you have an imge open, you can doubeclick on the path of the saved folder (in the Actions palette) and choose a new location to save files to and the program will automatically change the path in the script.
Thanks for your help.
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on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
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return
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Hi,
I have this script which is below which I need to split a 300 page document which I need to split into 50 documents and name them with a csv file provided. I have the excel spreadsheet with column headed "filename" with 50 file names.
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RaiseError: The file may be read-only, or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder.
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===> The file may be read-only, or another user may have it open. Please save the document with a different name or in a different folder.
file-0
I have checked the number of rows in the csv with the one which i created the merge in Indesign and it is the same. I have also tried using google docs spreadsheet but acrobat doesnt recognise the URL.
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var CSV = function (data, delimiter) {
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var _head = _data.shift();
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length: function () {return _data.length;},
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getRow: function (row) {return _data[row];},
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return _data[row][col];
} else {
col = col.toLowerCase();
for (var i in _head) {
if (_head[i].toLowerCase() === col) {
return _data[row][i];
function CSVToArray( strData, strDelimiter ){
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// Quoted fields.
"(?:\"([^\"]*(?:\"\"[^\"]*)*)\"|" +
// Standard fields.
"([^\"\\" + strDelimiter + "\\r\\n]*))"
"gi"
var arrData = [[]];
var arrMatches = null;
while (arrMatches = objPattern.exec( strData )){
var strMatchedDelimiter = arrMatches[ 1 ];
if (
strMatchedDelimiter.length &&
(strMatchedDelimiter != strDelimiter)
arrData.push( [] );
if (arrMatches[ 2 ]){
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 2 ].replace(
new RegExp( "\"\"", "g" ),
} else {
var strMatchedValue = arrMatches[ 3 ];
arrData[ arrData.length - 1 ].push( strMatchedValue );
return( arrData );
function isInt(n) {
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How to create a single action for adding a border and signature for portrait AND landscape images???
i would love to be able to create a single photoshop action for adding a border, plus a signature in the bottom right corner, that works for both portrait and landscape images.
need i say more?!
i already have an action that adds a signature in the centre of the border at the bottom of the image e.g. the image below. what i want though is for that signature to be on the RHS and for the same action to work for portrait images as well.
supplementary info: reason for this is that I want to be able to export 300 wedding images (mix of landscape and portrait images) from lightroom in my pre-selected order (meaning the files are labelled from 001 to 300, ordered according to how the wedding day unfolded) and then use PS to add the border and the signature, in the same place, and for it to work for both orientations.
i need this to work for full sized exported jpeg images, i.e. i want the files that i give on CD to my clients to include my signature in this manner. so I don't want to copy the initial layer and then reduce the second layer size to leave a border around the second layer.
i hope i've been clear and that someone can help me here. I think that this sort of presentation makes such a difference to final printed image, and I DONT want to have to go to all 300 images picking out the landscape from portrait ones (although this may be what I have to do and wouldn't really take that long but surely there's a better way!!!!).
Thanks in advance photoshoppers ...It is actually quite easy to do if you have a good understanding of how Photoshop works. To be able to handle any size Landscape and Portrait you need to scale the document to a known width or height. Once the document is resized to the width or height it easy. When yot resize the document you use Image size with resample NOT checked. Not a single image pixels is changed all the happens is the documents DPI is set to the proper DPI resolution to print that size. This lets you add a border sized for and document. You can use Canvas Size check relative and leatve the anchor point centered and set width and height to 2" this will add 1"on all sides. Use Canvas size a second time move the anchor point to the top center check relative and set height 1" the will add an additional 1" border on the bottom. You then record a text layer with your Name title or what ever to the top left of the image. Select all ant the align the text layer to the selection to move it to the bottom right.
Adding a couple of scripts to the action you can make sure there is a background layer so the added canvas will be filled with pixels. You can restore the document to its original DPI resolution to retain the images print size. Down load my crafting actions package it contains a dozen scripts to be used within actions. There are text file with tips and guidelines additionaly there is one on dealing with document size and includes a sample action set with a watermarking action the can watermark and size image. The Action set is also saved as a text file with additional comments I added my downloads can be found here http://mouseprints.net/Photoshop.html
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