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CHAPTER 3: Scripting Photoshop Understanding Clipboard Interaction 55 NOTE: If your script creates a new document in which you paste the clipboard contents, be sure the document uses the same ruler units as the original document. See "Setting Application Preferences" on page 32 for information. AS NOTE: On Mac OS, Photoshop must be the front-most application when executing these commands. You must use the activate command to activate the application before executing any clipboard commands. VBS tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5" activate select all of current document copy set current layer of current document to layer "Background" ¬ of current document set newDocRef to make new document paste newDocRef end tell 'make firstDocument the active document Set docRef = appRef.ActiveDocument docRef.ArtLayers("Background").Copy Set newDocRef = appRef.Documents.Add(8, 6, 72, "New Doc") newDocRef.Paste JS //make firstDocument the active document var docRef = app.activeDocument docRef.artLayers["Background"].copy() var newDocRef = app.documents.add(8, 6, 72, "New Doc") newDocRef.paste() Using the copy merged command/method You can also perform a merged copy to copy all visible layers in the selected area. In AppleScript, you use the copy merged command. For VBScript and JavaScript, you use the Copy/copy command, passing in a value of True/true for the optional merge parameter. AS NOTE: On Mac OS, Photoshop must be the front-most application when executing these commands. You must use the activate command to activate the application before executing any clipboard commands. set docRef to make new document make new art layer of docRef select all of docRef copy merged selection of docRef VBS docRef.Selection.Copy True Look up the Copy method for the ArtLayer and Selection objects in the Adobe Photoshop CS5 Visual Basic Scripting Reference, or in the Visual Basic Object Browser JS docRef.selection.copy(true) Look up the copy() method for the ArtLayer and Selection objects in the Adobe Photoshop CS5 JavaScript Scripting Reference, or in the ExtendScript Object Model Viewer.

Section	Page
Adobe® Creative Suite® 5 Photoshop® Scripting Guide	2
Introduction	6
About this Manual	6
Conventions in this Guide	6
Photoshop Scripting Basics	8
Scripting Overview	8
Why use scripts instead of actions?	8
Scripting Support in Photoshop	9
JavaScript support	9
Executing other scripts	10
Startup scripts	10
Executing JavaScripts from AS or VBS	10
Photoshop Object Model	11
Containment hierarchy	11
Application and document classes	12
Layer classes	12
Layer Comp class	13
Channel class	13
Selection class	13
History State class	13
Document Info class	13
Path Item, Sub Path Item, and Path Point classes	14
Preferences class	14
Notifier class	14
Count Item class	14
Color Sampler class	14
Measurement Scale class	14
The containment hierarchy and the Photoshop user interface	14
Additional objects	16
Constants	16
Creating a sample Hello World script	17
Creating and running an AppleScript	18
Creating and running a VBScript	19
Creating and running a JavaScript	19
Scripting Photoshop	21
Viewing Photoshop Objects, Commands, and Methods	21
Viewing Photoshop’s AppleScript dictionary	21
Viewing Photoshop’s type library (VBS)	22
Targeting and Referencing the Application Object	22
Creating New Objects in a Script	23
Setting the Active Object	25
Setting the active document	26
Setting the active layer	27
Setting the active channels	28
Opening a Document	28
Opening a file with default file format	28
Specifying file formats to open	29
Saving a Document	31
Setting Application Preferences	32
Allowing or Preventing Dialogs	33
Working with the Photoshop Object Model	33
Using the Application object	34
Using the Document object	34
Manipulating a document object	35
Working with layer objects	36
Creating an ArtLayer object	37
Creating a Layer Set object	38
Referencing ArtLayer objects	38
Working with Layer Set objects	39
Linking layer objects	40
Applying styles to layers	40
Using the Text Item object	41
Determining a layer’s kind	41
Adding and manipulating text in a Text Item object	42
Working with Selection objects	42
Creating and defining a selection	43
Stroking the selection border	44
Inverting selections	44
Expanding, contracting, and feathering selections	44
Filling a selection	45
Loading and storing selections	45
Working with Channel objects	46
Changing channel types	46
Using the Document Info object	47
Using history state objects	47
Using Notifier objects	48
Using the PathItem object	49
Working with color objects	51
Solid color classes	52
Using hex values for RGB color	52
Getting and converting colors	52
Comparing colors	53
Getting a Web-safe color	53
Working with Filters	53
Other filters	54
Understanding Clipboard Interaction	54
Using the copy and paste commands	54
Using the copy merged command/method	55
Working with Units	56
Unit values	56
Special unit value types	56
AppleScript unit considerations	56
Using unit values in calculations	57
Unit value usage	57
Setting ruler and type units in a script	59
Sample Workflow Automation JavaScripts	60
Advanced Scripting	60
Working with document preferences	61
Applying color to a text item	64
Applying a wave filter	66
Defining the area of a selection object	67
Applying a MotionBlur filter	71
Action Manager	73
The ScriptListener Plug-In	73
Installing ScriptListener	73
Action Manager Scripting Objects	74
Recording a Script using ScriptListener	74
Using the Action Manager from JavaScript	75
Using the Action Manager from a VBS Script	76
Running JavaScript-based Action Manager code from VBScript	79
Running JavaScript-based Action Manager code from AppleScript	80
Using ScriptListener to find event IDs and class IDs	81

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3: Scripting Photoshop

Understanding Clipboard Interaction

OTE

If your script creates a new document in which you paste the clipboard contents, be sure the

document uses the same ruler units as the original document. See

“Setting Application Preferences” on

page 32

for information.

OTE

On Mac OS, Photoshop must be the front-most application when executing these commands. You

must use the

activate

command to activate the application before executing any clipboard commands.

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"

activate

select all of current document

copy

set current layer of current document to layer "Background" ¬

of current document

set newDocRef to make new document

paste newDocRef

end tell

VBS

'make firstDocument the active document

Set docRef = appRef.ActiveDocument

docRef.ArtLayers("Background").Copy

Set newDocRef = appRef.Documents.Add(8, 6, 72, "New Doc")

newDocRef.Paste

//make firstDocument the active document

var docRef = app.activeDocument

docRef.artLayers["Background"].copy()

var newDocRef = app.documents.add(8, 6, 72, "New Doc")

newDocRef.paste()

Using the copy merged command/method

You can also perform a merged copy to copy all visible layers in the selected area. In AppleScript, you use

the

copy

merged

command. For VBScript and JavaScript, you use the

Copy/copy

command, passing in a

value of

True/true

for the optional

merge

parameter.

OTE

On Mac OS, Photoshop must be the front-most application when executing these commands. You

must use the

activate

command to activate the application before executing any clipboard commands.

set docRef to make new document

make new art layer of docRef

select all of docRef

copy merged selection of docRef

VBS

docRef.Selection.Copy True

Look up the

Copy

method for the

ArtLayer

and

Selection

objects in the

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Visual

Basic Scripting Reference

, or in the Visual Basic Object Browser

docRef.selection.copy(true)

Look up the

copy()

method for the

ArtLayer

and

Selection

objects in the

Adobe Photoshop CS5

JavaScript Scripting Reference

, or in the ExtendScript Object Model Viewer.