Annoying text "as Smart Object" in filename

Is there a way to automatically skip the annoying text in the file name "as Smart Object" (eg. test1 as smart object.jpg) when a file, opened from ACR as a smart object, is saved?

When you create something as a smart object? No. That is there intentionally to remind you that you chose to create it as a smart object (because people forget, often).

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Original filename for Smart Objects in CS6

After processing a camera raw image in ACR, I want to open the image in CS6 as a Smart Object.
Then I want to run a java script that depends on the original filename. Where in the metadata can I find the original filename?
Background: I have a script that executes very well if the file is opened in CS6 as a regular layer. However, when I open a file as a Smart Object, the script fails, complaining about an invalid filename.
The problem is associated with my favorite time-saving script and I am very keen to resolve the problem.   :-(
Thank you for your assistance.
BA

rj acton wrote:
After processing a camera raw image in ACR, I want to open the image in CS6 as a Smart Object.
Then I want to run a java script that depends on the original filename. Where in the metadata can I find the original filename?
Background: I have a script that executes very well if the file is opened in CS6 as a regular layer. However, when I open a file as a Smart Object, the script fails, complaining about an invalid filename.
I think the the only reason it works when you open them as a regular layer is because of your work-flow and habits. Try opening it twice as a normal layer an see if it works.
When you open a RAW file through ACR as a normal layer and as a smart object layer there is no backing file associated with the open document yet.   I feel you problem is you script is using something like the document name.   If you look at the title in the image floating window or tab you will see that Photoshop has assigned a name the first time you open it as a normal layer you will see something like filename.cr2 @ 25% (RGB16) the second time you will see filename-2 @ 25% (RGB16) when you open as Object you will see filename as smart object-1 (filename, RGB16). These title will change when you save the document to a image file type the title will change to the associated backing file you just saved.
I you look at Photoshop File info you can see all the image metadata and you can find the RAWFileName you want here a text file I wrote using a Photoshop script
It is enev in small jpef file saved from raw conversions if you don't strip mete data
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Getting the filename of a placed image inside a smart object

Hi
I'm wondering if I can get any help with a problem I'm trying to overcome for a friend of mine.
My friend is a photographer who does a lot of schhols work (pupil portraits) and wants to create a little document similar to this (very simplified) version:
I'm trying to help him to create a batch process so that he can make this take up much less of his time!
Here's where I've got to so far. I've created the layout above which is essentially a smart object (from an external file) manipulated in a couple of ways.
The workflow as I see it at the moment (although I'm wide open to suggestions, and I'm having a bit of Friday brain) is this: I generate an action that replaces the content of the external file with the contents of (each file in his incoming list, sequentially).
That file then comes back into the layout above and a new (flattened) copy is saved out from there.
Rinse and rerpeat through the list of incoming files.
I can just about make that bit happen using actions, but here's what I can't get - the filename of the incoming file (the one that's placed in the smart object). Can I can use a modified version of the AddFileName script to generate a text layer based on the filename of the placed contents in the smart object? Does any of that make sense? I'm reading this back to myself and even I'm not sure! ho ho.
My lack of logic/coherent sentence structure here is what probably holds me back in any eforts I have made in getting into scripting.
I'd appreciate any help that could be offered.
Thanks.
Fenton

Ah - alas it sems not to be. I think I am going to have to come up with a different workflow and by extension, solution. My current thinking is that I need to have an input folder for the images to be used in the layout, and an output folder for the results to be saved into, along with the layout.psd (as above) all housed in the same folder. Then I need (help) to write a script that does the following:
Checks that the layout document is open (that bit is easy enough)
if(documents.length==0){
   alert("You need to have your layout template open (-layout.psd-)")
}else{
    // Do next bit here - and what I'm trying to do is described below.
    // Hopefully by typing it out I might start to get it straight in my head
    // Any help with any part of this process is greatluy appreciated
    // I'm trying to learn!
Then what I think the script needs to do is tocheck the contents of the input folder and find out how many files are in it then set this as a variable, to set the length of a loop, maybe? Or should it load the filenames as an array and work through them sequentially?
Once that information is established, there is a smart object on the first layer that needs to be updated with the contents of the first file - my thinking s that this is done by the script opening each image, and then copy/pasting into the smart object, merging down (so I don't end up with an enormous multi-layered file). My reason for thinking this would be a good idea would be that I could just run a quick check to make sure that no landscape pics have sneaked in there and if they have, rotate them (which again, is pretty easy as even I could do that bit, too).
doc = activeDocument;
            if (doc.height < doc.width) {
              doc.rotateCanvas(90);
            } else {
              // Carry on
This will update all of the smart object instances throughout the layout template.
Then the text underneath the main image needs to be updated with the filename of the file that has been pasted in the smart object, and after that a [flattened] copy saved out to an output folder.
Rinse and repeat for the remaining images in the input folder.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Fenton

Is there a way to edit text in a smart object brought in from illustrator?

Is there a way to edit text in a smart object brought in from illustrator? Many thanks for the help!
And can anyone recommend learning resources for someone (me) who is an AI user for a decade who needs to work in PS for web mockups? Something other than a basic PS tutorial. Something geared towards that specific task. I'm not a PS beginner - but have mostly used it for photo correction until now.
Truly -- thanks! BTW - I'm in the CS 6 Suite and CC will not be available to me.

OMG! When I went back into the ai file and made sure that the text was on it's own layer (which I had not originally done) I could indeed edit the text in the file when exported to ps! This is a perfect solution for this situation. As far as the person I'm working with - who fears ai more than anything - I can work in ai - which in many ways is so much less cumbersome than ps - and just export - clicking "preserve" layers & text editing! I hope this helps someone else! Sisham - many thanks for your help!

Illustrator CS4 Text & Shape logo is pixelated when placing as smart object in PS

I made a Logo in Illustrator CS4 containing text & shape. The lines are crisp and clear at 100% & 200%+. I save my file as an ai and also another version as outlined. But when I copy & paste it into Photoshop CS4 as a smart object it becomes pixelated when I zoom in more than 100%. Is there a way to fix this?
When I use to do this in CS3 it worked fine, but now it doesn't work. The Photoshop file, placed as a smart object is the one on the left at 200%. You can already tell the pixels are distorted. The one on the right side is Illustrator file at 800% and is still crisp & clean. I've saved as eps, tiff, jpeg from illustrator and when opening it in photoshop and zooming in it's pixelated....and yes AA is turned on in Illustrator and nothing happens when I view as overprint either.
First, I'd like the logo in jpeg crisp and clear when zoomed in.
Second, I'd like to resolve the smart object issue in PS. I know a smart object will hold it's quality no matter the resize of the image in PS, but I can't get it to work... Can someone offer any suggestions

What is the ppi of the Photoshop file?
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How do you replace a text smart object?

I learned how here how to replace a photo with a similar photo in the same designs using the miracle of smart objects.
But what about text?
Let's say you have a chuck of text in a design and you want to change out that text with new text.
Same principle?
Only thing, unlike a photo -- text are not files to choose to replace with.

SORRY, bit lost with both those answers.
Here is where I am:
With photos in layers, I convert to a smart object. Then I right click and do the replace, a new box comes up and I select a jpeg off the desktop.
Again,
with text, is there a corresponding function here or not? You cannot choose a word file, right as your text replacement.
Maybe I should just then add text the old fashioned way by dragging out a new text box for each new file in this series.
I just thought it would be nice to replicate the smart object ease that I'm doing with images with text.
Wade-- don't understand opening up a smart object with text -- I get digaloge box
P -- your warp thing is way to convoluted for me sorry.

Vector Smart Object Text - P'shop

Hi Guys,
I am trying to make a text layer in photoshop and convert to a smart vector object, but it only gives me an option to convert to smart object, as opposed to vector smart object. The bad point about this is that the text becomes rasterised when exported to EPS or PDF (same with vector shapes within a smart object), unlike a regular vector layers which output correctly.
Is there anything im missing out on, or do I have to revert to importing all text from illustrator and set up my smart vectors like that?
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From an old thread in Windows Photoshop forum http://forums.adobe.com/message/3498406#3498406
Smart Object Layer resize three side by side three results. Open this link in a new tab http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/3000x2000.jpg
I resized up big time. Started by creating a 300x200 PSD file with three layers two shape layers and a text layer with layer style added. The layer style contained a stroke gradient overlay shadow and more. Fitst shape layer Pink Photoshop Cloud. Second shape layer Blue Photoshop Male shape. Top Layer Text JJMack. Link 138KB PSD file http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/logopsd.psd
here it is saved as Jpeg
I then Photoshop new Document 3000x2000 ten times the size. Did menu File>Place and placed in the losopsd.psd file just hit enter did not to any transform.
Then three times with the placed smart object layer the target I did menu Layers>Smart Objecj>New Smart Object via Copy. I now had three more copies.
I double clicked on the smart object icon on the botom most copy in the layers palette
In Photosop menu Image>Size in the dialog checked Resample and Constrain not Layer Styles Bicubic set width 3000 click OK
Menu File>Save followed by File>Close
I double clicked on the smart object icon on the middle copy in the layers palette
In Photosop menu Image>Size in the dialog checked Resample, Constrain and Layer Styles Bicubic set width 3000 click OK
Menu File>Save followed by File>Close
I clickcked once of the top copy in the layers palett, Then Ctr-T and changed the 100% in the width and height to 1000% and committed the transform
I selected the Left third rectangle 1000 Px by 2000 PX and added a layer Mask
Target middle copy Selected left 2/3 2000Px by 2000 PX and added a layer Mask Saved as PSD and Saved as Jpeg
Link to 15MB PSD http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/3000x2000.psd
Here is the Jpeg Link http://www.mouseprints.net/old/dpr/3000x2000.jpg Scroll the below image sideways to see how different the three are click on the jpg link to have your browser scale it down also note how scalling down seems to sharpen..

Blurry smart objects in Photoshop Save for Web jpegs

I create graphs, etc in Illustrator, place them as Smart Objects in a master Photoshop file before outputing Save for Web jpegs to use as PowerPoint slide backgrounds. Everything created in Illustrator or Photoshop through that process (Quality 80 or 100 with any of the SfW options on or off) Save for Webs are blurry when imported (at 100%) into PowerPoint. The only way I have been able to get anything crisp in PowerPoint was saving a Photoshop pdf. However, that was only the text created in Photoshop. The Illustrator Smart Object part was still blurry. Anyone have any idea on the best process to combine Photoshop and Illustrator files into one file for import into PowerPoint as a clean, crisp background? At this point I am open to all suggestions.

There are parts that are being added in Photoshop, hence going from Illustrator through Photoshop as a Smart Object and then onto PowerPoint. If I wasn't 5 months down the line and just nearing deadline, I would recreate everything in Illustrator. Assuming that I have to continue at this point down the Illustrator through Photoshop line of working, how do you designate pngs or jpegs to be 220ppi. Jpegs have a 1-12 quality (and 12 is still blurry).
Note regarding PowerPoint, I embed the full-page image into the background so others that are using this can't move (by accident or on purpose) the background.

Open as "Smart Object" from ACR to PS questions.

I have 2 questions associated with opening from ACR as a Smart Object in Photoshop. I'm using CS4.
1. Is there a way to retrieve the original filename (complete with path) using a script or a setting somewhere to do this? I'm currently using Bridge Talk to ask Bridge what the active folder is then adding that to the document's .name property and taking off the " as Smart Object-1" part. Then I add a .psd extension to it and then I have to save it to retain that name unless there's an answer to #2 below.
2. Is there a way to change the Document's name as described above from "Filename as Smart Object-1" to "Filename.psd" without actually saving it?
It seems to me there would be a simple way that I might be overlooking here.
Thanks
Mike

Sorry, I guess I need to explain better.
I wrote a script to do this, but here is this portion of the workflow:
1. Open CR2 file in ACR and make adjustments.
2. Open as Smart Object in PS.
3. Script Events Manager activates this script on Document Open, checks to see if it was opened as a Smart Object. We'll assume it did.
4. The script asks me if I want to make another layer. I pick yes. The script copies the SO layer, sets an inverted mask, and opens to edit settings in ACR again.
5. I adjust the settings for that layer in ACR and click OK.
The script will keep looping between 4 and 5 as long as I pick YES.
This gives me more local control of areas. If I want to bring out eyes a bit, I can up contrast, saturation, sharpness, brightness, exposure, or whatever looks best for the eyes in ACR, then unmask the eyes as much as I want on that layer in Photoshop. There is more data to pull from in the RAW file vs trying to do the same thing within Photoshop.
Opening as a regular image file then converting to a SO doesn't give me the same control. I would have to reopen the file separately, make the adjustments in ACR, open to PS then copy that document and paste as a new layer in the original.
Duplicating the document might work also, but I can also just save as .psd at that point since I'd have to know the path name by then anyway. I'll give that a try, though, and see if it might work better. The only catch with the save part is it slows me down waiting for it to write the file and if I have 5+ SO layers, it takes awhile. Once I unmask where I want, I flatten to a rasterized layer and continue.
Thanks

Replace smart object script

Disclaimer: I do not know how to script, but am willing to learn and am looking for advice.
I need to replace the text in a smart object from a data list then save the updated file using the smart object text. Is there an existing script that will do this?
I cannot use a straight text layer because I'm performing a free distortion warp on the smart object that does not work on straight text. Using variables seems like a logical solution, but the only variable type for smart objects is "visibility".
Plan "B" is to "replace smart object" with a series of PSD files containing the appropriate text. This works great, but I don't know how to automate it. I can easily create the series of PSD files using variables, but don't know how to automate their insertion into the template containing the distorted smart object.
I'm looking forward to learning something new!

I took a quick look at your script.
I do not know where the the displacement map come in,
The script seem the be replacing the object content of the current smart object layer.
That layer can have had all sort of photoshop functions associated with it and has an associated transform. All smart object layer have an associated transform and may have smart filters and filter mask as well.
I see no code to handle the smart object size and make the replacement object have the same size or insure the replacement object is the aspect ratio and size. Replacing a smart object content does not change the current layer's associated the transform that transformed the original object. If the replacement object is not the same size as the original object the transform may not work like your expecting.
An associated displacement map may come into play because of smart filters on the smart object layer. Displacement maps content are either for the layers content or for lower layers content to make the current layer to conform to lower layers contours.
In fact I create a four image picture package template that used a smart object for the image. Added CS2 for a file type that could be used to replace the image in your script and ran your script. It did pop up the ACR dialog if I select a raw file but it worked perfectly for my portrait cr2 files are the same size and aspect ratio. Ast the object.
And a jpeg was saved to my desktop.
When a different size landscape orianted portrait image is selected here is the result

Smart object layer from PS to AI. how to use??

I successfully work AI vector objects as placed objects into PS by copy pasting or file/place into a smart object layer in PS, I find value in making changes to my vector object dimensions in AI and seeing them updated in PS,
but I don`t know how to do it the other way, meaning a PS jpeg on a layer to AI as smart object, I choose an image on its own layer in PSCS4 and convert to smart object, I (right click) export the contents as jpeg smart object, and then back in AI go file/place the smartobject jpeg, when I make changes to the PSsmartobject in PS like colour shift or dimensions change nothing happens in AI,
I would like to have an image pasted from PS into AI whereby I can change colours and dimensions or add pixels like paint on that smartobject layer in PS and then have it update in AI...

To my knowledge Illustrator does not support smart objects. However it does support image linking. Which means if you update a image in photoshop, Illustrator will know the file has changed.
When placing the file, you will see a checkbox at the bottom of the open dialog box for link, make sure it is checked. When you update the file when Illustrator is running with that file opened, you will get a promt telling you the file has changed and asked you if you want to update the image.
If you choose not to update the image at that time, you can click on the linked file text in the top tool bar and update the image from there.
If the file is not open or Illustrator is not running then the file will update the next time you open the file.
Also you will find a edit original button in the top tool bar to take you back to what ever image editor is assigned to that file format.
To assign a file format to photoshop:
For this example we will use jpeg extention
1) Open windows explorer
2) Menu options tools>folder options>File types tab>scroll to jpeg and click on it
3) Click the advanced tab
4) see what actions are listed odds are only open and printo are listed
5) If Edit is not listed, click on the new button
6) For the action type EDIT
7) For the application used to perform action click the browse button
8) Browse for photoshop.exe
9) The following should now be in the application used to perform action box:
"C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe" %1
The above file location is assuming you have CS3 and you used the default installation edit original button in Illustrator and the right mouse button menu in windows explorer will take you to photoshop to edit the file.
10) After you click OK you will see the new EDIT action in the list
11) Click OK and then click close to get out of all the dialog boxes
The action can be removed at any time or edited to use another application.

Smart object in template: saving off each layer as a png.

I know someone must have asked for this before, however, I'm not sure how to phase it perfectly. I have provided many images to help me convey what I want, and I hope that helps. I make many mockups for smart phones and the like. Most of the time, when I present my work, my employer wants to see it "in the device".
I have a template of a phone (I grabbed an iphone just for the sake of mockups), and I load all my mockups into the smart object that makes up the phone's screen in the template. However, saving out each mockup can become very time consuming. Is there a script out there what will save out each screen once I have added all my content to the smart object? (In my example, the final result would be 3 pngs of the phone displaying one of the 3 screens)
Thanks!

It there is no perspective distortion need like iPhone example a straight on perspective. That would be a snap to do with a Photo Collage Template PSD and a batch script. The template could be as simpla as a background image of your iPhone shot straight on and an alpha channel the maps to the iPhone display. For example BatchOneImageCollage.jsx However that script would save a set of PSD files would contain a background layer. If you want a set of files the template would need two layers a plain white background layer a layer above it a cutout of your iPhone with the screen also cutout an missing., and the mapping alpha channel. The saved PSD file would the need to be processed with the Image Processor Pro script the save PNG for the PSD and include an action that deletes the background layer or turns off its visibility.
Photo Collage Toolkit UPDATED Made Rotate for Best Fit an option in PasteImageRoll.jsx Edit to customize your default settings.
Photoshop scripting is powerful and I believe this package demonstrates this.
The package includes four simple rules to follow when making Photo Collage Template PSD files so they will be compatible with my Photoshop scripts.
Documentation and Examples
There are twelve scripts in this package they provide the following functions:
TestCollageTemplate.jsx - Used to test a Photo Collage Template while you are making it with Photoshop.
CollageTemplateBuilder.jsx - Can build Templates compatible with this toolkit's scripts.
LayerToAlphaChan.jsx - Used to convert a Prototype Image Layer stack into a template document.
InteractivePopulateCollage.jsx - Used to interactively populate Any Photo Collage template. Offers most user control inserting pictures and text.
ReplaceCollageImage.jsx - use to replace a populated collage image Smart Object layer with an other image correctly resized and positioned.
ChangeTextSize.jsx - This script can be used to change Image stamps text size when the size used by the populating did not work well.
PopulateCollageTemplate.jsx - Used to Automatically populate a Photo Collage template and leave the populated copy open in Photoshop.
BatchOneImageCollage.jsx - Used to Automatically Batch Populate Collage templates that only have one image inserted. The Collage or Image may be stamped with text.
BatchMultiImageCollage.jsx - Used to Automatically Batch Populate Any Photo Collage template with images in a source image folder. Easier to use than the interactive script. Saved collages can be tweaked.
BatchPicturePackage.jsx - Used to Automatically Batch Populate Any Photo Collage template with an image in a source image folder
PasteImageRoll.jsx - Paste Images into a document to be print on roll paper.
PCTpreferences.jsx - Edit This File to Customize Collage Populating scripts default setting and add your own Layer styles.
Four Rules Templates need to follow:
Size the photo collage templates for the print size you want - width, height and print DPI resolution.
Photo collage templates must have a Photoshop background layer. The contents of this layer can be anything.
Photo collage templates must have alpha channels named "Image 1", "Image 2", ... "Image n".
Photo collage templates layers above the background layers must provide transparent areas to let the images that will be placed below them show through.
Example:

How to open smart object in camera raw

Hi,
As the subject line reads, I'm having trouble opening a smart object in camera raw. Every tutorial I read or watch says, "double click on your smart object thumbnail to open the image in camera raw." But every time I do, all it does is open a copy of the image as a .psb file.
Before you ask,
-The images I work with are stock images, JPG's.
-I've tried to find an option in Photoshop > Preferences that will let me open smart objects in camera raw all the time;
-I've tried opening these files directly in camera raw. When I do, there's a little link below the image that reads something like,
Adobe RGB (1998); 8 bit; 2008 by 3000 (6.0 MP); 240 ppi
I click on it, and there's a 'click box for "open in Photoshop as smart objects"; clicking this will allow me to open the image in Camera Raw upon double clicking on the thumbnail. But it will only work that way for that one instance of that one image.
Anyway to make this happen?
Thanks,
KP

What is the .extension after your filename on this file? Needs to be .jpg, .tif or .psd. Then choose open, and change format to Camera raw.
If you are saving as .jpg, the smart object has been bitmapped, and is a no longer smart object.

Photoshop bug: Smart Objects overwriting other Smart Objects when edited and saved in Illustrator

Experiencing issues when working with a large number (over 200) vector smart objects brought into Photoshop CS4 from Illustrator.
Things seemed to be going along nicely; if I needed to edit a Smart Object, I could double-click it, it would open in Illustrator and then I could edit and save it. Return to Photoshop and the Smart Object is updated. Swell and dandy. The issue started happen when I hit a large quantity of either vector smart objects (remember, over 200) or the many layers and groups within Photoshop (must be over 500). When I would double-click, open, edit, and save the vector Smart Object, the Photoshop Smart Object I was working on would update AND another/several other Smart Objects would update as well. Which, of course, would ruin the artwork, as suddenly I was seeing several instances of the same object. If it hadn't have been for ForeverSave, I many not have recovered the work.
It's rather hard to isolate the issue to see what's causing the problem. Here are some of the possible causes:
Running Snow Leopard on Mac
Many, many Smart Objects in file, perhaps enough to ruin the naming convention and cause bugs when Photoshop referenced the temp file
Many, many Photoshop layers and groups
Illustrator vector files copy+pasted from several different files (affects the naming convention perhaps?)
Some groups/layers in Photoshop are duplicates
To help make it a little clearer, you should know:
Running the most updated software / OS (that is until CS5 comes out)
Smart Objects showed no error until I had actually opened, edited, and saved the referenced temp file (i.e. VectorSmartObject1.ai)
Files saved and worked on from Dropbox (network folder)
Not looking for much of an answer to this question; I just wanted to see if anyone else had come across this bug. Also, Adobe PLEASE look into this as you begin testing for the next update. I have the file(s) if you need to replicate the issue. My best guess is that the naming convention of Vector Smart Objects has an odd character limit so when Vector Smart Object 200.ai is saved, Vector Smart Object 2.ai gets overwritten.

Have you tested this with Photoshop CS5 and Illustrator CS5? (the current versions, that came out last month)
If you duplicated a smart object layer, both layers refer back to the same file content. So when you change the file, both layers would be updated. That is intentional and explained in your manual. If you didn't realize this, that could explain what you are seeing.
If you placed separate files, then they should not be updated at the same time, because they will refer to separate files.
Yes, Smart Objects only update when you save the file.
You would need over 4 billion smart objects in one document to get Photoshop confused about which one refers to which file. And since the layer limit is much less than 4 billion, I doubt that is the cause.
There is no naming convention involved. We don't limit the filenames (except to platform standards and to include a file type extension).

Standard text in smart form

Hi,
can anyone tell me how to include standard text in smart form
Thanks

Procedure
1. To create a text node, call the context menu for that node in the tree structure that shall
receive the text and choose Create Text.
2. Enter a unique name for the node and a node description (for example, letter).
3. On the General Attributes tab choose Include text as text type.
Since you edit a text element, an included text, or a text module exclusively via the
text node, the system stores only information on the selected type. When you
change the text type, the system therefore asks for your confirmation.
4. In the Text key box, identify the include text.
To identify individual text objects, use the search help in this field.
The search help of the Text name field allows you include the attributes of SAPscript
texts into the search.
7. If required, use the Paragraph formats box to format the include text:
The style assigned to the text node contains a format for the standard paragraph ('*'). If you enter a paragraph format in the Standard paragraph field, this format overwrites the style format for all standard paragraphs in the include text that use this paragraph format.
Use the First paragraph field to set a paragraph format for the first paragraph of the
include text. This format also overwrites the format set in the style. If you set the First
paragraph field but leave the Standard paragraph field empty, the system uses the
format set in the First paragraph field for any standard paragraphs in the include text.
6. In the Text node box choose whether you want the text to start in a new paragraph, in a new
line, or directly at the end of the current paragraph.
7. If desired, choose the Output Options tab to maintain the style or box and shading
of the text.
Result
The system displays the node in the tree structure, including its name and description. The
included text is included only at the moment the form is processed.
Regards

Annoying text "as Smart Object" in filename

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