Preserved Topic: Specifying action settings

I have what may turn out to be a stupid and/or obvious question. Does anyone know how to specify percentage settings in an action (specifically in my case for guides). I wanted to make an action that created guides in the center of any document I created/opened automatically. I recorded an action where I created a new guide and set it to 50% horiz and then a new guide at 50% vert. When I look at the action though, it's listed in pixels. If I try to use the action on a different sized document the guides appear off center (obviously). What I need to figure out is if it's possible to force the action to use percentages. Along those lines also, are there any ways to build actions aside from recording or "insert action" in palate?

T.I.A.

hehe.
you know, mindbender, I asked the same question quite a while ago ;-).

The response was, can't be done, I believe.
But mind, that was back when PS6 was the state of the art.
so maybe, someone has a new idea now?

I think the problem is, the use of new guide, Try draging the guides from the rule instead, This seems to work just fine for me in Photoshop 7 under windows.

Open a dummy file, Set my rules to percentages, start recording my action, drag a rule to 50% h, then 50%v, stop recording. Then load my new image and apply the acton. Even if I convert my rulers to inchs or cm, that guide still are placed at 50%. When I look at my action I see values in percentages.

What version of photoshop are you using, and is it mac or win?

You might what to try and record a preferance change to the units prior to recording the placement of the guides. I don't know if it will help but worth a try.

You might also want to check in to the photoshop 7. scripting plug-in, I can seem to find any info on guides but the is a listener plugin you start that will record your steps so they can be use with the scripting language. Either javascript like language, applescript on mac or VB on windows. Worth a look see.


J. Stuart J.

Right on. I tried creating the guides like you said. Switching the rulers to percentage units seems to force the action to record percentages. It doesn't seem to matter what your rulers are in when you play the action as long as you recorded it in percentages.

Just more proof that you can stare at a problem for a long time and still miss an obvious solution. Thanks


It's only after we've lost everything...
That we're free to do anything...

good to know =)

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jstuartj: Your permission to put your text directly into the FAQ would be cool, but not 100% necessary



[This message has been edited by Raptor (edited 01-12-2003).]