
Photoshop CS Scripting Guide
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Scripting Photoshop
Viewing Photoshop objects, commands and methods
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3.2.1 Viewing Photoshop’s AppleScript dictionary
1. Start Photoshop, then your “Script Editor.”
2. In Script Editor, choose “File > Open Dictionary”. Script Editor displays an “Open
Dictionary” dialog.
3. Find and select the Photoshop application and click the “Open” button. Script Editor
displays a list of Photoshop’s objects and commands and the properties and elements
associated with each object, as well as the parameters for each command.
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When viewing the Photoshop dictionary using Apple’s Script Editor, the complete list
of open and save formats cannot be displayed because of the large number of choices
available. The complete list of available open and save formats are listed below.
open anything -- the file(s) to be opened
[as Acrobat TouchUp Image/Alias PIX/BMP/CompuServe GIF/ EPS/EPS PICT
preview/EPS TIFF Preview/Electric Image/Filmstrip/JPEG/ PCX/PDF/PICT file/PICT
resource/PNG/Photo CD/Photoshop DCS 1.0/ Photoshop DCS 2.0/Photoshop EPS/Photoshop
format/Photoshop PDF/ Pixar/Portable Bitmap/raw/SGI RGB/Scitex
CT/SoftImage/TIFF/Targa/ Wavefront RLA/Wireless Bitmap]
save reference -- the object or objects to be operated upon
[as Alias PIX/BMP/CompuServe GIF/Electric Image/JPEG/PCX/ PICT file/PICT
resource/PNG/Photoshop DCS 1.0/Photoshop DCS 2.0/ Photoshop EPS/Photoshop
PDF/Photoshop format/Pixar/Portable Bitmap/ raw/SGI RGB/Scitex
CT/SoftImage/TIFF/Targa/Wavefront RLA/Wireless Bitmap]