Need to export file with different layers selected automatically

Question

I have a file with a background and various text layers.
I want to select each text layer individually and export them to a file, but I don't want to do this manually because it would take a lot of work.
My question is, how would i tell photoshop to export X numbers of files. Where X=number of text boxes.

Answer 1

I still don’t quite follow: Should the resulting files combine one of the text-layers with the lowermost layer or display only one of the layers?
Because I thought Export Layers to Files would do the second.
Anyway, the following might help, You would have to enter Your intended gif-settings in the Script manually though (see »Photoshop CS4 JavaScript Ref.pdf« or ExtendSctipt Toolkit’s Help > Object Model Viewer for the correct nomenclature for the various options).
And You should adjust the naming-procedure to Your liking, I didn’t use the actual layer-names to avoid possibly overly long names.
Paste the following text into a new file in ExtendScript Toolkit (part of Photoshop’s installation) and save it as a jsx-file into Photoshop’s Presets/Scripts-folder.
After restarting Photoshop theScript should be available under File > Scripts and can be assigned a Keyboard Shortcut directly, recorded into an Action or (in CS4) be used in a Configurator-Panel.
// saves gif-copies of the backgoud-layer with one of the other layers visible in the same location as the original file;
// existing files of the same names will be replaced without callback;
// use it at your own risk;
#target photoshop
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
// get the name;
var docName = myDocument.name;
var basename = docName.match(/(.*)\.[^\.]+$/)[1];
//get the location;
var docPath = myDocument.path;
// get all non-layerset-layers;
var theLayers = collectLayers (myDocument);
// gif options;
var gifOpts = new GIFSaveOptions();
gifOpts.colors = 256;
gifOpts.dither = Dither.DIFFUSION;
gifOpts.ditherAmount = 75;
gifOpts.forced = ForcedColors.NONE;
gifOpts.interlaced = false;
gifOpts.matte = MatteType.WHITE;
gifOpts.palette = Palette.LOCALSELECTIVE;
gifOpts.preserveExactColors = true;
gifOpts.transparency = true
// hide all but the background layer;
for (var m = theLayers.length - 1; m > 0; m--) {
theLayers[m].visible = false
// save the copies with one additional layer visible each;
for (var n = theLayers.length - 1; n > 0; n--) {
theLayers[n].visible = true;
var layerName = theLayers[n].name;
// duplicate image before saving to avoid flattening-dialog;
var thecopy = myDocument.duplicate (thecopy, true);
thecopy.saveAs((new File(docPath+"/"+basename+"_"+n+".gif")),gifOpts,true);
thecopy.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
theLayers[n].visible = false
////// function collect all artlayers //////
function collectLayers (theParent) {
if (!allLayers) {
var allLayers = new Array}
else {};
for (var m = theParent.layers.length - 1; m >= 0;m--) {
var theLayer = theParent.layers[m];
// apply the funtion to layersets;
if (theLayer.typename == "ArtLayer") {
allLayers = allLayers.concat(theLayer)
else {
allLayers = allLayers.concat(collectLayers(theLayer))
return allLayers