I'd like to export layer structures(and layer itself to file) to folders using a scripting language(preferably which will run on mac and windows)
I found a ready to use sample for Photoshop (*.psd) files.
http://techarttiki.blogspot.com/2008/08/photoshop-scripting-with-python.html
Wonder if same thing can be done to *.ai files.
Thank you in advance.
Just like Photoshop Illustrator supports scripts written in AppleScript, JavaScript or VBScript. You can find more info at the Adove Developer Connection site dealing with Illustrator scripting.
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I want to automate a sequence of task on Adobe Premiere Pro CS6,
thats all repeating tasks, and while doing manually consumes lots of time, :)
that stars from: importing video file, image files, doc file-> making a sequence -> adding files on sequence with predefined height , width-> inserting scripts -> analyzing them -> adding marks on particular word on metadata-> and finally exporting it..
I want to make all these task automatically done with some scripts on adobe premier pro or anythign else...
appreciating
Premiere is scriptable, as are the other Adobe Creative Suite apps, using their Extendscript API. Extendscript uses javascript. There's an official Adobe IDE for it called Extendscript Toolkit, that has a script editor, debugger and a object model viewer.
There's one problem, for premiere the documentation is perplexingly scarce. It's a pity, because for other programs like After Effects there is a thriving community of developers doing amazing stuff with extendscript.
The Adobe Javascript guide is here and some class information specifically for Premiere can be found here.
If you are on the PC platform, try having a look at a free windows automation package such a AutoIT or AutoHotKey. I have been using AutoHotKey for several years now and this tool can be used to automate pretty much anything you can think of. It is a scriping language, there is a learning curve, but easy to use if you follow the many tuts and samples out there.
It doesn't seem to be officially supported, mentioned or used much (maybe because most user think programming is 'nerdy' stuff and don't touch it?) - anyways:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5310306
Unfortunately the documentation is scare and I don't know which version may support scripting (and which OS).
I'm looking for ways to generate pdfs on-the-fly preferably using a command line tool as this will be done from a web-based system.
My requirements include must work on Windows and Linux, should be able to convert Microsoft Word, Excel and HTML into PDF.
Also the ability to concatenate or merge various documents into one PDF output file would be good.
Any suggestions? I would prefer to avoid applications that work as "printer drivers".
many thanks
After doing some research, the best solution I found in the end that could handle all the file formats we needed converting, plus which ran on Linux and Windows was a beautifully elegant lightweight Python script called PyODConverter. This uses OpenOffice (which itself runs in server mode) to do the actual conversions, and it really works beautifully. I used a separate tool called PDFTK to do the PDF concatenation, as I found that ImageMagick loses a lot of information (and creates huge file sizes).
If you find PyODConverter too limited, there is also a more powerful heavyweight option written by the same guy called JODConverter.
Calibre runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X and has command line tools on all three. It can translate a great many document types to PDF and other formats.
(Disclaimer: I'm a heavy user, help out on Calibre's IRC channel, and have been poking at development, so I'm just a bit biased.)
I think this has a command line utility, but not sure. Check this
PDF Creator
Have a look at biopdf, and a PDF printer that uses it called Bullzip PDF. Check the documentation for Bullzip PDF for examples on how it can be automated. It has an API interface as well as the GUI.
I am working on an application where I am writing some automation framework for testing a web application. I am using Watij / Watin for the framework, but have run into a problem with verifying the PDFs generated have the correct content.
I know I can use IText or a native PDF library to load up the PDF, but I am wondering if there is already an existing framework dedicated to testing PDF file content?
it's an interesting problem, but thankfully like most out there, there's someone who has done it before you.
Take a look at http://jpdfunit.sourceforge.net/references/jpdfunit_aShortIntroduction.pdf for information on a PDF testing framework called JPdfUnit.
The program homepage is at http://jpdfunit.sourceforge.net/.
Hope that helps!
Simple PDF Automation to read text from PDF document.
How can I programmatically convert RTF documents to PDF?
OpenOffice.org can be run in server mode (i.e. without any GUI), can read RTF files and can output PDF files.
You have a number of options depending on:
the platform(s) your application will be running on
whether your application will be a server application (e.g. a web service that you set up once and then it runs), or a widely-available desktop application (e.g. something that must be easily downloadable and installable by many people)
whether you are willing to put little or more programming effort into getting the solution to work
whether you are flexible as to the programming language you will use
Here are some options:
PDFCreator + COM
Windows only
suitable for both desktop and server applications
medium programming effort
any language that allows you to speak COM
OpenOffice ( + JODConverter - optional )
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, etc.)
suitable for server applications, as OpenOffice is a 100MB+ download
low programming effort
Java (if using JODConverter), or any language that can interface with OpenOffice's UNO
IText + Apache POI
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux, etc.)
suitable for both desktop and server applications
high programming effort
Java
EDIT
Here is an older post that has some commonality with your question.
EDIT 2
I see from your comments that you are on Linux and open to either C++ or Java. Definitely use option 2.
JODConverter (Java): the library takes care of spawning OpenOffice in headless mode and talking Uno to it on your behalf. You provide JODConverter with an input and output file name as well as the input and output types (e.g. rtf and pdf), and when it returns to you the output file is ready.
C++: you can fork+exec one (or more, for load balancing) OpenOffice instances in headless mode (soffice will listen for UNO requests on a socket e.g. port 8100.) From your application use Uno/CPP to instruct OpenOffice to perform the conversion the same way JODConverter does (see the JODConverter source code for how to do this.)
/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin \
-accept=socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=8100;urp; \
-headless -nocrashreport -nodefault \
-nolockcheck -nologo -norestore
I am successfully using JODConverter from a Java app to convert miscellaneous document types (some documents dynamically generated from templates) to pdf.
Four years late to the party here, but I use Ted in my web application. I generate RTF programmatically, then use the rtf2pdf.sh script included in the package to generate the PDF. I tried OOo and unoconv previously, but Ted proved faster and more reliable in my application.
Use PDFCreator, a free pdf printer. Just print to pdf. You can control this through COM. Example code is in the COM folder of the install directory.
PDFCreator for windows is the easiest for single documents.
It's also possible to automate PDF creation for large sets of documents by converting them to XML and using XSLT and XSL-FO. There are lots of tutorials for this out there.
For a specific language, such as python, libraries exist to output to PDF fairly trivially.
The only advantage of XML over other simpler solutions is extensibility. You could also programmatically output your document in RTF, HTML, TXT, or just about any other text format.
LibreOffice can convert RTF documents to PDF via command line.
Here are the instructions to install it on CentOS.
And this is an example to initiate conversion from PHP code:
<?php shell_exec('libreoffice4.2 --headless --invisible --norestore --convert-to pdf test.rtf'); ?>
PrimoPDF. It acts as a virtual printer, so you just print to it, and out pops a PDF.
Look at PDF Printer
We are developing a little application that given a directory with PDF files creates a unique PDF file containing all the PDF files in the directory. This is a simple task using iTextSharp. The problem appears if in the directory exist some files like Word documents, or Excel documents.
My question is, is there a way to convert word, excel documents into PDF programmatically? And even better, is this possible without having the office suite installed on the computer running the application?
Office 2007 allows for this. I have found PDFCreator to be good, the VBA is included in sample files, and have heard that CutePDF is also good. PDFCreator and CutePDF are free.
To work without Office, you would need viewers, as far as I know:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c8378bf4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en
I needed to do this myself, but managed to get it done with .Net and without 3rd party tools:
MSDN: Saving Word 2007 Documents to PDF and XPS Formats
Pretty simple, about 50 lines of code. However I think you will need Word 2007 installed on the machine as well as the ability to Save As PDF
To convert Word documents to PDF, take a look at jWordConvert, a java library that can do exactly that. This will not work with the Excel files though, only with the Word files. The language is not Sharp, it's Java but you could switch to use IText (which is java) instead of ITextSharp.
You can also use a component like activePDF's DocConverter to convert a lot formats to PDF.
Use PDF maker that comes with adobe 7- 9
I just used this code Covert Doc to PDF
I'm surprised Aspose wasn't mentioned here, it's easy, simple, and reliable. Downside is that it is not free.
I've used iTextSharp in the past, it's really good, easy to install (one DLL I believe), the merge takes a bit of tindering so it's not as easy to use as Aspose, but hey, it's free so that is the best part.
TallPDF.NET (comes with a hefty price tag) allows you to serve dynamic PDF from any .NET application including ASP.NET pages and web services.
PDFEdit (free and open source) is an editor for manipulating PDF documents. It has a GUI version and a command-line interface. Scripting is used to a great extent in the editor and almost anything can be scripted. It is possible to create your own scripts or plugins.
The most common way to convert files to a pdf is to print them to a pdf printer driver. There are a number of such drivers, one that i know of that will do the job is Black Ice.
Another is to use Adobe Acrobat's SDK. from memory its very expensive.
Its been a while since i have actually done any work with converting pdf's and the landscape may have changed.