I have a set of images and X-ray data generated from coupled scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy. Here's my problem: I imaged transects of a rock surface like this (pur...

I’m writing an app in typescript to compile to adobe extendscript (an es3-based javascript syntax). I am trying to use the extendscript-only syntax #include "path_to_file"; which is not ...

I often work with icons and need to quickly check how they look with pixel preview. When I'm building them I have the grid enabled, and artboards visible. I really want a script that will do the fo...

Is Adobe Media Encoder (AME) Scriptable? I've heard people mention it was "officially scriptable" but I can't find any reference to its scriptable object set. Has anyone had any experience script...

When I catch an error in ExtendScript, I would like to be able to log its stack trace. It appears that errors do not contain stack traces in ExtendScript, so I'm playing around with the idea of add...

Typically when you're writing a .jsx script to automate an Adobe product (like InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop), you write, debug and execute the script from the ExtendScript IDE. Is it possible...

Javascript's setTimeout function is a method of the window object. This object doesn't exist in ExtendScript and is therefore not available to scripts made for Adobe InDesign or Illustrator. What c...

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 err...

I want to get the absolute folder path of current running Extendscript. i.e __DIR__ in php (or) __dirname in nodejs. Equivalent in Extendscript.

This script takes the last filter that was applied and repeats it on all selected layers and masks. (It is designed to avoid the need to collapse layers into a smart object in order to batch-apply ...

I created a extendscript that automatically creates layersets for asset textures for a game. After creating a layerset, the set is expanded by default. I want the layerset to be collapsed as shown...

My only prior experience with #targetengine is when I've used #targetengine "session"; to turn a dialog into a palette when scripting in InDesign. But as I'm trying to figure out how to script a me...

We're writing a bunch of .jsx scripts and in each I have to mock out some functions so I can use things like Array.map() and String.trim(), but I don't want to have to include that code at the top ...

Not a programming problem per se, but rather a programming environment problem that I have been unable to find a solution to. The problem relates to Adobe's Extendscript Toolkit (both 3.5 and 4), ...

In After Effects, a lot of my time is spent in the graph editor, and a lot of the motion I create is similar. I've used Ease and Wizz to use expressions to duplicate easing motion between layers, b...

I'm writing a script for After Effects that collects all properties from a layer and write them into an XML file. When I retrieve the values from the XML, some values are readOnly and the toolkit t...

I've started a project where I need to use Adobe Indesign and ExtendScript to programmatically extract some data from a series of INDD files. The version of Javascript used for scripting in these p...

I am working on After Effects scripts and using AE scripting guide as a base of learning. I have one After Effect project which includes two AE projects in it and each of the project having multi...

I'm trying to create a script in ExtendScript for Premiere Pro that will load-in specified video files, clip them at specified start and stop times, place them into a sequence and then export the r...

I'm a JavaScript developer, who has just begun to dive into Adobe's ExtendScript technology, aiming to improve productivity and workflow on many of my enterprise's daily tasks on Illustrator PDF fo...

I'm trying to place an svg in illustrator using extendscript. Here's basically what I'm doing var doc = app.documents.add(); var p = doc.placedItems.add(); p.file = new File(svgfilepath); This f...

How does one loop through all the compositions in the currently opened After Effects project?

This seems like it would be a very easy problem to solve, but I've been banging my head against it for almost an hour. All I need is a snippet of javascript/extendscript code so that my InDesign CS...

I'm working on a Photoshop script in JavaScript using ExtendScript. My script allows some user input, and I'd like to save it between uses. That is, I'm looking for a way to save a simple string or...

The only difference I have found so far: If a script that is run by app.doScript returns an error, the file and line number of the error are overridden by the file and line number of the app.doScri...