Photoshop batch produce titles from XML

Hi,
Is it possible to use photoshop to batch export a large list of titles from XML or some kind of text list?
e.g.
Home
My Account
Products
Downloads
Help
etc
Cropping the images down to the correct sizes as it goes?
Any help on this would be great.
Thanks
Oli

I don’t follow – what’s the input and what exactly is Photoshop supposed to put out?
For example, a website uses a lot of images as H1 titles for things such as 'My Account' & 'Downloads' etc. I have a large text list of these. Is there a script or plugin, that will take this list a given a selected size & type face, produce images as cropped down GIFs.
What size would be the »correct size« and how is Photoshop to deduce it?
The correct size is the size of the title. For example, create a new document -> type some text -> hold down cmd and click the T on the layer -> this will create the selection, and select crop from the image drop down. That's the size I'm after.
I can create an action to do the bit above, but I'm unsure of how to feed the text in to photoshop 1 title at a time. I've looked at the jQuery Sifr plugin, but the idiots want to use images
Thanks

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Hi,
Is it possible to use photoshop to batch export a large list of titles from XML or some kind of text list?
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My Account
Products
Downloads
Help
etc
For example, a website uses a lot of images as H1 titles for things such as 'My Account' & 'Downloads' etc. I have a large text list of these. Is there a script or plugin, that will take this list a given a selected size & type face, produce images as cropped down GIFs.
The correct size is the size of the title. For example, create a new document -> type some text -> hold down cmd and click the T on the layer -> this will create the selection, and select crop from the image drop down. That's the size I'm after.
I can create an action to do the bit above, but I'm unsure of how to feed the text in to photoshop 1 title at a time. I've looked at the jQuery Sifr plugin, but the idiots want to use images
Thanks
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Thanks
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I don’t follow – what’s the input and what exactly is Photoshop supposed to put out?
For example, a website uses a lot of images as H1 titles for things such as 'My Account' & 'Downloads' etc. I have a large text list of these. Is there a script or plugin, that will take this list a given a selected size & type face, produce images as cropped down GIFs.
What size would be the »correct size« and how is Photoshop to deduce it?
The correct size is the size of the title. For example, create a new document -> type some text -> hold down cmd and click the T on the layer -> this will create the selection, and select crop from the image drop down. That's the size I'm after.
I can create an action to do the bit above, but I'm unsure of how to feed the text in to photoshop 1 title at a time. I've looked at the jQuery Sifr plugin, but the idiots want to use images
Thanks

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