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I need to display a simple html element on a layer on Photoshop using extendscript (JavaScript).

Does someone have any idea how to do this please ?

Here is the html element :

Does anyone know if it's possible to style text a certain way using ExtendScript, only when a certain condition is met for the paragraph in question?

I've cobbled together an ExtendScript script that I use in InDesign to fix text styles when they aren't fixed properly by the Paragraph Style tool, and it works well so far - changing Courier and Arial Unicode text to Times New Roman and fixing the font size - but i would really like to include a function that changes Times New Roman Italic to Times New Roman Bold Italic - but ONLY when the paragraph it appears in has a first letter that is set in Univers. Is there a way I can include an 'if' statement that will only trigger this style change in those circumstances?

Here's my existing code:

I'm using cep (csinterface) to communicate with extendscript and I need to pass an array in a fonction. The problem is that extendscript convert my array in a string. I wanted to send a string with delimiter at my function but when I use array.split() I got an evalscript error.

In the index.js

I am trying to create a script for drawing a frame around my photographs. I already have actions that will do that, but they're not perfect. I always have to tweak them after the frame is created.

The main fundamental problem I see with actions is that there can be no user interface. I want the user to be able to select parameters such as frame size, color, line width, and so on, before the frame is actually drawn. I would also like to give the user the ability to save their selections and recall them the next time the script is used.

The PhotoShop Scripting Guide just has a tiny section at the end about user interfaces. It says "Adobe provides the ScriptUI component, which works with the ExtendScript JavaScript interpreter to provide JavaScript scripts with the ability to create and interact with user interface elements." And it provides this link. But that link only goes to a page that describes, very incompletely, recent changes to that component. Can anyone tell me where I can find documentation that will teach me to use that component?

And in case it matters to anyone, I posted this identical question on Reddit.

Further to my question here I'm writing a list of hex colours to a binary file from within Photoshop using Extendscript. So far so good.

Only the binary file written with the code below is 119 bytes. When cut and pasted and saved using Sublime Text 3 it's only 48 bytes, which then causes complications later on.

This is my first time in binary land, so I may be a little lost. I suspect it's an either an encoding issue (which could explain the 2.5 file size), or doing something very wrong trying to recreate the file in a literal, character for character sense. *

I am facing issue while running this script(time.jsx):

var timeStr = system.callSystem("cmd.exe /c \"time /t\"");

alert("Current time is " + timeStr); Documentation of AE

it works in Adobe After Effects but I want to use it specifically in illustrator. Basically, i want to run my Python script from Extendscript(.jsx). But I couldn't find any solution to do so yet.

Your help is appreciated. Thanks in Advance.

everyone. I am a graphic designer, and thought I would start to learn coding to write scripts for Adobe Illustrator in ExtendScript/JavaScript. I started some beginner tutorials and have been making progress. A response to a question I had posted on a JavaScript forum suggested I use Visual Studio Code as a writing environment, so I downloaded it. It seems to be very advanced, and I can't figure out how to use it. I watched some of the introductory videos and they seem to start with an assumption of some experience.

My question is does anyone know of any resources for someone just starting out with Visual Studio Code? I did some searching and couldn't find anything suitable.

Thanks for your time. Joe

I get this error: test.scpt: script error -41. Couldn't get error text because of error -1700.

AppleScript contents:

I am working on processing meta data information of my Indesign document links, using ExtentdScript.

I want to convert the object to string using JSON.stringify but when I use it, I am getting error saying:

can't execute script in target engine.

If I remove linkObjStr = JSON.stringify(linksInfObj); from below code, then everything works fine.

What is the equivalent to JSON.stringify in ExtendScript, or is there any other possibilities to display linksInfObj with its proper contents instead [object object]?