[Bart Remmers]

Keep me posted on this too. I’d love to know!

[Bart Remmers]

Found it. Change BEST SETTINGS to CURRENT SETTINGS. It makes sense. Don’t like it that it’s so unclear tough.

[Bart Remmers]

So, I decided to pick this up yesterday and I came with an acceptable solution.
I reïnstalled my Photoshop CC 2019 CLEAN. That means I finally had the chance to start off with an English version. The Photoshop at work was configured to be in the Dutch language, but that’s just horrible. Just believe me on that.

The reason why I post this reply, half an year after the problem is that some other might have the same problem or I, myself in the future might reference to this post. I do that more often. Look up other problems that I encountered and asked for a solution for on this forum. I hope I might help someone out with this.

I started over. Here is the script that I made (based on the steps I want it to do, as seen in the first message of this post).

So let’s open up EVERY image that we want to convert with this script. Usually I open 5 to 10 (PSD) files.

Now I had the problem that the actions do not seem to be very variable in where to save it and how to name it, so as you can guess I ended up in the following menu (File > Automate > Batch):

This does exactly what I want (note: the save location has changed (from C:\ to E:\) due to the hard disk space being insufficient. So the script still contains C:\ and the automate thing saves it to E:\, you can change this at any time over here, without changing anything in your action script.

Problem:
It adds “_WEB” to everyfile name. So in this example our original file is called “PICTURE.PSD”. The output comes like the following four files.

– PICTURE_WEB.JPG
– PICTURE_WEB_WEB.EPS
– PICTURE_WEB_WEB_WEB.JPG
– PICTURE_WEB_WEB_WEB_WEB.PNG

The output is good! Exactly what I want. Only the file names are a bit messed up. So I manually change them to the following:

– PICTURE.JPG
– PICTURE.EPS
– PICTURE_WEB.JPG
– PICTURE_WEB.PNG

(I delete ‘_WEB’ once on the first file, twice on the second. Twice again on the third so one is left behind and three ‘_WEB’s on the last one.

I’m happy with this outcome. If anyone knows how to fix the last problem, that would be very welcome. For now I’m just really happy that I’m able to convert my files in one press of a button.

Thanks guys, for helping me out on this 🙂

[Bart Remmers]

I know where you’re coming from with this, but it’s strange, because everywhere I read online, it never did support it. But the strangest thing is… Mine did. And I find it really strange that all of the sudden, after a clean Windows install, which I’ve done a dozen times before, it restricts me from importing these files. Strange right?

[Bart Remmers]

Thank you for your answer! 🙂

[Bart Remmers]

Kalle, you are a true hero! Thank you!

[Bart Remmers]

Hi Kalle,

I’ve been messing around with your script. It’s really usefull too! Thanks again for it.
Is it possible to split two times in one text layer?

Like this:

I put this in my text layer: “*, #”

text_array = text.sourceText.split("*");
text_array[0]+thisComp.layer("text_1").text.sourceText+text_array[1]

text_array = text.sourceText.split("#");
text_array[0]+thisComp.layer("text_2").text.sourceText+text_array[1]

When I try this it only works on the last one, so this will show up like this:

“*, text_2”

Do you have any idea if it’s possible to split it twice in one layer?

Bart.

[Bart Remmers]

I too, am still looking for a solution for this. Some text layers might eventually change over time (the text source) so I want them to automatically center two or three layers, even after I changed the text’s source, automatically.

[Bart Remmers]

Quick question; would there be a simple way to have the three layers (the second example that I’ve shown in the first post in this topic) centered in the middle of my composition? Right now if the left one contains 3 characters and right one would contain 10 characters and I centered the middle one, it wouldn’t be centered anymore.

Bart.

[Bart Remmers]

Hi Kalle,

Thank you for your expression. Not in all instances is it required for my texts to have different colors, but I’d like to have the possibility to change it in whatever I’d like it to be. It’s good that you pointed this out. I’ve tried your and Dan’s expression and I went with Dan’s because this one fits more to my needs. But I’d still want to thank you offcourse for your effort and helping me out. So thank you for your input. Much appreciated!!

I’m sure I’ll be back sometime soon when I can’t achieve what I’m trying.

Bart.