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  • Creating an action to run on multiple layers

    Posted by Iann Mcgill on July 27, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    Hi,
    I have let’s say 200 layers. I want to take all of those layers and export them into a single powerpoint presentation or pdf. Is there a way that I can either “file>automate>pdf presentation” and take ALL of the individual layers and send them to the external program. Or do I have to go through every single layer, and “save as” or run the automate on it individually?

    thank you,

    iann

    Iann Mcgill replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Vincent Rosati

    July 30, 2007 at 2:39 am

    Maybe try, Photoshop File/Scripts/Export Layers To Files might work for you? Or, maybe one of the other scripts.

    With Acrobat Pro you can create a multi-page PDF from the batch of resulting images – via the Create PDF button on the menu.

  • Iann Mcgill

    August 6, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    That did work! Thank you! I ended up creating an action to save a .jpg. But I still had to go through and do it one layer at a time manually. This is perfect. Thanks! It will be a great help in the future.

    Now… I don’t mean to press my luck… heh, heh, heh… but I don’t suppose you know of a way, that I can name the layers and then when I use the script you just discussed, I can save the layer by their name?

    Thank you again,
    iann

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