Scripting support

It has been brought up before I guess, but it might bear repetition as it seems the problem has not been remedied in CS4:
On the occasions I try utilizing the advantages Scripts provide over Actions in Illustrator I find the implementation rather weak compared to Photoshop and Indesign.
Many features (as far as I can tell) seem unscriptable yet and Script-invocations in Actions still get deleted on quitting.
This, from what Ive read, having been a source of complaint for several versions of Illustrator, seems particularly strange to me.
And lets better not delve into the convenience of Photohops Scripting Listener.
Im not an experienced scripter and many of the things I find lacking may be due to ignorance on my part, but I would still like to know if Adobe tries to improve this situation or if the use of Scripts is deemed the province of a negligible minority anyway?

Hi Vamitul!
Thank you for your helpful response!
Here is an example of what I am trying to do: I know how to create a new InDesign document (in JavaScript). I know how to create a text frame on the one page in that document. I want to import an RTF file into that text frame and have it automatically generate as many pages as necessary to hold all the text.
Can you show me step by step how I would find help in the jongware documentation to accomplish this? I'm not so much looking for the code to do it, but rather how to find the help I need in the documentation to at least try to write the code myself.
Thank you!
Dan

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I need to create an automated process of saving different layers from documents as different file formats. Unfortunately there is no scripting support for exporting to EMF-format, which I need to do. I glanced on the possibility of calling a self-defined action from my script, but I need to automatically set the output folder and name of the exported files which apparently isn't possible.
In my frustration I've started to think about a more "advanced" solution, which is: Can I somehow extend Illustrator's scripting support, to be able to export files as EMF? I can't even find how to export files to EMF in the SDK documentation, so I feel a bit lost.
Has someone done something like this? Or even more desirable, does someone have a better solution to this?
Thanks!
Johannes

Dear Johannes,
If I had no experience with the SDK, and I only needed a solution as described, I would certainly prefer a scripting solution.
In that case, I would recommend saving the file to a fixed path and file name with an action or script.
Then a script could move/rename the file to where you would like it saved. As long as it was being moved to the same drive, the difference in performance would be imperceptible.
You didn't mention what scripting environment you are using, however, this would be trivial with AppleScript and most likely any scripting language you might be using. If you are using AppleScript, I could provide a one line example on how to move files...
Hope this helps.
Best.

Outlook 2010 cannot provide form scripting support

I have followed two workarounds and fixes for Office 2010 in a terminal services environment. One was to copy a .dll file to the terminal server and the other was to remove a registry entry. Both workarounds fixed the problem temporarily,
but it continues to show up. When a user opens some email messages they receive a warning that "Microsoft Outlook cannot provide form scripting support. This feature is not available. For more information, contact your system administrator."A+, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, Security+

Here is what I did to enable VB scripting for Outlook 2010.
1.
Determine the GUID for Office 2010.
In the Registry, go to
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features. Search for
“OutlookVBScript”. I found it at:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\00004109110000000000000000F01FEC.
In the Registry, for an x86 server go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products,
or for an x64 server, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\InstalledPackages (the first one)
and select the key where you located “OutlookVBScript”.
On my server, it is:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products\00004109110000000000000000F01FEC
When I select it, this is what I see:
DisplayName “Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010”
InstallSource, ModifyPath and UninstallSring all show the Office 2010 GUID as
{90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}
2.
Install VBScripting for Outlook.
My commands to install VBscripting for Outlook are therefore:
change user /install
msiexec /i {90140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE} ADDLOCAL=OutlookVBScript /qb
change user /execute
Note: After installing VBscripting for Outlook, “OutlookVBScript”at
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\00004109110000000000000000F01FEC changed its value from “OUTLOOKFiles”
(where the box glyph at the beginning appears to be a minus or dash in the Registry editor) to “OUTLOOKFiles”.

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In case it helps development the situation now on my Win XP SP3 is that:
If I open LR before PS CS3, then CS3 reports Sripting Support version 10.0 and the LR "Open in CS3" does not work properly in the way reported before by many people.
If I Open PS CS3 and then open LR, then CS3 reports Scripting Support Verson 10.0.1 and LR "Open in CS3" does work correctly.

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The scripting support is disabled

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"The scripting support is disabled on the server"
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dushanth
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Hi Nilesh,
In SCC4, I have
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dushanth
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How do I download apple script support

How do I get Apple Script Support Download for ITUNES on windows 7

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I found something, which looks like a specification.
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section 'Best Practice for Business Object definition and scripting',
download ' Syntax for Actions and Events.pdf'.
Within this PDF, see section 'Logical Expressions'.
Cite: The logical u201Candu201D (&&) and u201Coru201C (||) operators always evaluate the overall expression to a boolean value (u201Ctrueu201D or u201Cfalseu201D)
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Open Script supports Oracle Fusion Middleware Application

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Can anybody please confirm whether Oracle Open Script 9.2 supports scripting for Oracle Fusion Middleware Applications?
We have received a project proposal to do load test for the same.
Appreciate for early response
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ATS supports different protocols when you say Fusion Middleware do you know which protocols you are testing ?
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tell application "Keynote"
activate
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The installation places a Photomerge.jsx file and a "Stack Scripts Only" directory under Presets\Scripts but there is no mention on how to execute them or add new ones.
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshop/scripting/
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<name>Place as Smart Object...</name>
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<menu>automate</menu>
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Premiere Pro CS5 Scripting Support?

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Devin

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Besides that, I also need the option to have mulptiple (playlist) windows open. Apple stubornly refuses to listen to all users who want this feature back, which was removed in version 11.
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Scripting Support in OEM

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