
Photoshop 7.0 Scripting Guide
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Introduction
1.1 About this manual
This manual provides an introduction to scripting Adobe Photoshop 7.0 on Mac OS and
Windows
®
. Chapter one covers the basic conventions used in this manual and provides an
overview of requirements for scripting Photoshop.
Chapter two covers basic scripting terms, concepts and techniques. Experienced AppleScript
writers and Visual Basic programmers may want to skip to Chapter three for specifics on
scripting Photoshop.
1.1.1 Conventions in this guide
Code and specific language samples appear in monospaced courier font:
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I M P O R TA N T:
Most code examples in this manual are brief snippets that will not work as
fully functional scripts.
Several conventions will be used when referring to AppleScript, Visual Basic and JavaScript.
Please note the following shortcut notations:
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AS stands for AppleScript
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VB stands for Visual Basic
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JS stands for JavaScript
The term “commands” will be used to refer both to commands in AppleScript and methods in
Visual Basic and JavaScript.
When referring to specific properties and commands, the manual will follow the AppleScript
naming convention for that property and the Visual Basic and JavaScript names will appear in
parenthesis. For example:
“The
display dialogs
(
DisplayDialogs/displayDialogs
) property is part of the
Application object.”
In this case,
display dialogs
refers to the AppleScript property,
DisplayDialogs
refers
to the Visual Basic property and
displayDialogs
refers to the JavaScript property.