Mike Slurzberg
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Hi all:
I posted this query in one other forum, but I figured it'd be for a pretty narrow audience, so:
We've come to the point where actions aren't doing everything we want to streamline workflow, and I've elected myself to figure out scripting. The main things we're trying to do are things like being able to easily do multiple directory switches in a "save" action, and being able to use a conditional to avoid having to do certain adjustments separately for horizontal and vertical aspect ratios.
My first two big, semi-general, questions are, first, if someone can clear up the simplest work method to do basic scripting. After eating up a day reading it appears that doing it in JavaScript, with the ExtendScript toolkit, is the way to go. But, that begs the question of how that relates to the Action Manager, and the ScriptListener plug-in. It seems like the idea is to use ScriptListener as a sort of "super action recorder" to get a script to start with, then edit it with either the Action Manager or ExtendScript Toolkit. So, what's the workflow on actually doing the script?
Second, does anyone know of educational resources for learning more about this? The Adobe documentation is extensive, but reads like it was written by Bill Gates' geekier brother. The stuff I've found on the web is aimed at guys smarter and more software oriented than me (and I have an engineering degree!).
Thanks in advance. So far, this timesaver...well....ain't.
I posted this query in one other forum, but I figured it'd be for a pretty narrow audience, so:
We've come to the point where actions aren't doing everything we want to streamline workflow, and I've elected myself to figure out scripting. The main things we're trying to do are things like being able to easily do multiple directory switches in a "save" action, and being able to use a conditional to avoid having to do certain adjustments separately for horizontal and vertical aspect ratios.
My first two big, semi-general, questions are, first, if someone can clear up the simplest work method to do basic scripting. After eating up a day reading it appears that doing it in JavaScript, with the ExtendScript toolkit, is the way to go. But, that begs the question of how that relates to the Action Manager, and the ScriptListener plug-in. It seems like the idea is to use ScriptListener as a sort of "super action recorder" to get a script to start with, then edit it with either the Action Manager or ExtendScript Toolkit. So, what's the workflow on actually doing the script?
Second, does anyone know of educational resources for learning more about this? The Adobe documentation is extensive, but reads like it was written by Bill Gates' geekier brother. The stuff I've found on the web is aimed at guys smarter and more software oriented than me (and I have an engineering degree!).
Thanks in advance. So far, this timesaver...well....ain't.