Questions tagged [script]
Small programs automating certain tasks. For questions about script typefaces, use the script-typeface tag.
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Script for illustrator
everybody.
Maybe someone has the script to make this kind of fill
100000 thank you
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Giorgio - Script Font Identification
Can anyone help me find this script font? I have googled or use 4 or more font identfiers already, couldn't find, very urgent.
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Dynamic Names When Exporting in Photoshop
Is there a way to dynamically use the document name in export? For instance, I have artboards name Square, Horizontal, and Vertical, in a document named Design. When exporting I'd like filenames to be ...
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Is there a script that splits text layers into seperate lines (text layer for each line)
I wanted to know if anyone knows of any scrips that splits text layers into separate lines. I have one right now, but the problem is, when it splits the layers it goes way too far down. Heres the code ...
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Indesign - Need to split between only 2 text boxes
first time here.
I'm working in Indesign and I was wondering if anyone knew how to split text between just two text frames/boxes.
To be clear, I'm not trying to unlink text boxes, but split them. ...
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Is there a way to automate the merging of groups in photoshop, one by one?
In a file, I have about 10-20 groups of independent layers each.
Is there a script/action that identifies each group and merges them one by one?
As of now, it takes me a lot of time waiting on a ...
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How to replace Smart Image with a different graphic WITHOUT using Photoshop?
This Q&A offers a method by using Photoshop to load .js. However, I found this website can achieve this goal without using Photoshop.
My question is how this website achieves this goal?
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Change SVG-file resolution (DPI) with Inkscape/Illustrator/script… efficiently!
Is it possible to simply open a SVG and save it with different DPI?
Since Illustrator exports with 72 dpi and Inkscape "imports" with 96 dpi, my artworks are rescaled. As I rescale documents manually ...
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Action including a fill layer
I'm operating in Windows on CC2019.
I'm writing an action in which I include a layer fill. I want it so that when I run the action it fills the layer with the foreground colour I have selected at the ...
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How to automatically generate text that adopt the same name as imported image or excel file in illustrator?
I have a lot of product photos to edit in Illustrator.
I want to create several artboards with one product image, and then one text box for each artboard, but i need these to automatically adopt the ...
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Examples of very basic GIMP scripts?
I want to write some simple scripts to use in batch mode, such as doing a resolution resize, or converting from rgb to grayscale.
The old scripts repository seems to have been taken down. I am ...
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Adobe After Effects: Changing color and font style through expression
I am trying to achieve something like this using expressions. Where any number followed by a dot is Red in color (including dot) and then anything inside parentheses is italics and yellow in color, ...
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How to export multiple artboards coordinates (x y) to file?
I have an Illustrator file with several artboards as attached.
In particular I have an artboard that contains all the others.
The other artboards concern the individual objects to be exported.
I ...
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Selecting textframes with illustrator script
How could I select textframes in illustrator with script?
Here is my code:
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var nameKorText = doc.textFrames.getByName('nameKor');
nameKorText.contents = "test";
I ...
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New Folder with Selected Files in Adobe Bridge
I have hundreds of images in a folder in bridge. I have tagged them alternatively by colour. The first bunch as Yellow, the second as Blue the third as Yellow again and so forth. I want to copy each ...
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Turn on 'Paste Remember Layers' with script
I want to paste object remembering layers on new artboard.
Here is my sample.
function test(){
var copyOpt = app.pasteRememberLayers;
copyOpt = true;
...
}
But it doesn't work.
Help me, plz. :(
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InDesign script to insert pages between existing ones
I try to create a very simple script that adds one page after every existing page of the document and applies one of the masters to it.
Unfortunately I have a problem with referencing objects in ...
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Dithering with GIMP python-fu
I'm using GIMP 2.10.6 on Ubuntu 18.10.
I'm trying to script an automatic image manipulation, and for part of the workflow I need to dither a layer in my image.
I can't find anything in the script-fu/...
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How to get the coordinates for a selection bounding box in Gimp
I'll make a rectangle selection in image. I have to read the left, right, up and down dimensions of this selected region in full image. The following image is an example of this.
Edit:
Can we print ...
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Need Help With Tweaking a Script for Photoshop Batch Exporting Sections of an Image
Resolved: Thanks for the help, everyone! The script by Sergey Kritskiy works to export storyboards with sequential file-name.
I just found a script by TunaMaxx the other day and thought it was super ...
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Any way to export layers to files WITHOUT a prefix, short of editing the .jsx file?
I'm using a template PSD to crop large batches of ecom images and then exporting my layers to TIFF files. Only problem is Photoshop insists on putting a prefix in front of each file name--even if I ...
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Script font Identification help please [closed]
Poor original script font for identifying. I’ve tried everything to ID the original is just too poor.
I edited it heavily and was able to get a search. No exact match but some possible substitutes. ...
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Resize thousands of images all to different sizes in batch. Name and size are given in excel file. How to do it? [duplicate]
Pardon me if this is a duplicated question even though I could not find a solution yet. I have about 1000s images. I need to resize them, each to a specific size. There are no patterns to those sizes. ...
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Scribus: how to force sign in calcuated numeric fields?
I'm new to Scribus, and using it to make an interactive PDF. I have several fields that are calculating integer values based on a custom calculation script. Now I would like to make sure that positive ...
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Batch background removal on non-uniform images
The issue I'm having is the following: I have an archive of about 700,000 tif images that were originally microfilms.
They are all black and white and are basically paper with information on it. I'm ...
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How to change in photoshop script color of Smart Object Layer, or Rasterized Image?
I need to change color of Smart Object Layer in JS script. I found how to change TextLayer, but SmartObjects haven't "textItem" property. Need to change it like Color Overlay works in Photoshop. For ...
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Gimp, script that iterates through several images and exports each one with different options
I'm quite new to gimp. Assuming I have N images I was wondering if it is possible do the following:
For i = 1...N
For each export options j = 1 .. N
Export(img[i],option[j]);
Basically what ...
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Photoshop - Export layers to files using plugin
I'm using a plugin to export my pngs (https://www.fnordware.com/superpng/)
Anyone knows how I can replicate the Export Layers to files functionality that comes with photoshop but export as SuperPNG?
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How to turn off Text Layer-Name Update
In this question: Restore Photoshop Text Layer Name Auto-Updating?
The asker talks about Photoshop's 'feature' of automatically updating a text layer's layer-name to the first thing you change the ...
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ScriptUI panel resizing issue
I'm working on a script that receives a bunch of input from the user to change certain text fields around the document. Given the amount of input I want the user able to change in a single run of the ...
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Weird Script UI bug
I'm working on a script with a dialog box in photoshop. The goal is to get an End Date and Time for multiple banners.
My Cancel button works fine, but my Ok button produces a weird bug. The window ...
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Plotting points from external file in GIMP
I've got to believe someone has written a SCRIPT-FU scriptor or simple plug-in that reads a file of (x,y) points (in GIMP's coordinate system) and plots small circles of specified color and diameter ...
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Scripting 1-line vs 2-line text boxes
I will try to ask this question as best I can, but the problem is a challenging one.
I have a text box that one part of my script will change the text in. I want to code a boolean variable to check ...
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In script, get paragraph preceding current selection
I've made a script that goes trough all tracked changes:
var allChanges =app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().changes.everyItem().getElements();
var nChanges = allChanges.length;
for (var i = ...
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Script to Change Table Style - InDesign CC
I have an InDesign CC 2018 document which I imported a docx file. The file contains a lot of tables. I want to apply a table style to all of the tables, but we are talking hundreds of tables.
Is ...
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Calling a (simple) photoshop script rapidly (many times per second)
This is the script, it's actually just one command:
app.foregroundColor.hsb.hue=app.foregroundColor.hsb.hue+10
The script is merely a replacement for a non-existent keyboard shortcut. I'm calling it ...
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Scripting Artboard Export with specific bit depths
I'm working on setting up a reusable template for some PNG avatars. Unfortunately, the different avatars have specific export requirements. Currently I'm using Save for Web to achieve these specific ...
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Is there a way to save the current GIMP edit history as a script?
Is there a way to export the edit history so I can use it in a script-fu?
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How to import data and create a symbol using scripting with Illustrator?
I would like to automate a series of actions in Illustrator, creating a complex symbol from vector images imported, or from simple symbols.
The actions are:
Importing files or choosing symbols from ...
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Generate palette from image
I want to automatically generate a palette from an image.
Something like this, where the output is an image a single pixel tall, and 256 pixels wide, from all the colors of an input image.
I've ...
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Script for random movement (scatter)
I have found (and use) scripts for random opacity, random resize, random rotation etc. but I can't seem to find one which will do a "random displacement/move"
With the other above mentioned scripts, ...
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Saving smallest JPG possible with Photoshop
I wanted to know what the best way to save a JPG to be very small and still keep its quality as much as possible. I have 1200x1200 psd files that when I save them while keeping quality the jpg is ...
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Artboard renaming issue
I'm working on a script for my team that will allow them to batch rename artboards in Photoshop. We use the following naming convention for our artboards: "ProjectTitle_BannerType_WidthxHeight_LG" ...
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How to create a script in GIMP?
I'm using GIMP to do a simple but tedious operation for many images so I'd like to know how I can make a script that will do it for me, or find some simpler way of doing this.
I import an image file ...
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Way to quickly select random objects with variations in foreground/background [duplicate]
So, I'm Trying to find a way to select areas of images that have similar levels of contrast, but with variations of color. Is there a way through scripting or otherwise in Photoshop to select ...
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Replace smart object content without Photoshop
I am looking for a way to bulk replace smart object content without using Photoshop. My goal is to create nice poster mockups for hundreds of posters automatically.
So I have a PSD file containing ...
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Indesign Script - output xml content as textframes [closed]
Is there a way of looping through xml tags and output each tag onto a new page of an indesign document
Here is what i have so far but i think i am way off:
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var ...
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How to fill a shape with different elements of varying sizes
I'm looking to replicate this effect without having to putting each icon in by hand manually. Is there a program or script that could help me achieve this?
I tried it with some mosaic apps but it ...
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Illustrator script to convert multiple files into outlines with a pdf preset
Can someone help with an illustrator script that can convert text from multiple files in a folder to outlines and save it to pdf with a specific preset of my choice?
Was able to find from my research ...
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How can I mimic a used magazine cover (crease, earmark, cracks) with Gimp? [closed]
I have made a fan magazine cover with Gimp (Sunken novels):
I would like to imitate creases, cracks, earmarks, tears (maybe even coffee mug marks) to give it a used, worn-out look. Something like:
I ...
