Replace text in photoshop document & save

Hello,
I have to make apprieciation certificates for a committee. Is there a way to use Automator to replace text within a photoshop document (people's names) and then save each name in a different file?
Thanks!

In theory, at least, this should be possible through an AppleScript which could be part of an Automator workflow, at least with Photoshop CS4 (I don't have earlier versions to check in their scriptability). The AppleScript suite for Photoshop CS4 has a text-object function that offers a lot of control over a given block of text, so it looks like it would be doable. You might want to take this up in the AppleScript forum or, probably better, in Adobe's own Photoshop forum.
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If you want to donate something nonetheless you could do so over at
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