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1. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 4, 2012 3:47 PM (in response to savanna.smith)I should also say that I am working in CS5.
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2. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
ryan.marchese Dec 4, 2012 4:19 PM (in response to savanna.smith)I have to batch process images into multiple formats as well and Actions have saved me so much time. I work primarily in print, so I'll admit I'm not familiar with the process you need to go through to save your SWF files, but you could always try to record the steps into an Action.
From there you can go File > Automate > Batch which will bring up the dialogue below. The top two menus let you choose your Action and directly below that you can designate the source where your files are (you can open all of them first or direct this menu to a folder).
Hope this helps some!
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3. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
Jeff Arola Dec 4, 2012 5:52 PM (in response to savanna.smith)Do you have Fireworks?
(part of the cs suite)
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4. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
c.pfaffenbichler Dec 5, 2012 12:00 AM (in response to savanna.smith)If you don’t habe Fireworks (which I assume from R_Kelly’s post would offer a decent approach) there is the possibility to use a Script to save pngs off of the files in Photoshop and employing BridgeTalk to also automate the Illustrator procedure; I’m not very experienced witrh Illustrator Scripting, but I assume saving an swf should be Script-able.
In any case that’s a bit involved; still you could ask for help over in the Scripting Forum.
For just the png creation Image Processor Pro might be useful.
http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2011/05/new-image-processor-pro-script-for-cs5.html
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5. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
Paul Riggott Dec 5, 2012 4:37 AM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)1 person found this helpfulHere is a script for Fireworks that will convert PNGs to SWF
(Note the script needs to be saved as FileName.jsf)
var fileList = App.chooseScriptTargetDialog(App.getPref("MultiFileBatchTypes")); for(a = 0;a< fileList.length;a++){ fw.openDocument(fileList[a]); var swfFile = fileList[a].toString().replace(/png$/i,'swf'); fw.exportSWF(null,swfFile); fw.getDocumentDOM().close(false); }
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6. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 6:07 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)Thanks Paul, I really appreciate it. Can you please tell me how to save this so that I can use it? I am not very familiar with fireworks.
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7. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 6:08 AM (in response to ryan.marchese)Thank you Ryan, that really helps! Now I just need to get these swfs figured out!
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8. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
Paul Riggott Dec 5, 2012 6:28 AM (in response to savanna.smith)1 person found this helpfulJust save the script as plain text to a file with a jsf extension.
Then from within Fireworks select Commands - Run Script
You can the select the pngs you want to convert.
The swf's will be saved alongside the selected png's.
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9. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 6:42 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)Thank you so much for helping, however I am still having trouble with this. When I go to run script and select my .jsf file I get this message:
could not run the script. an error occured.
Any idea of why or what to do next?
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10. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 6:55 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)I loaded the script into my commands on my hard disk and batch processed it that way as well, however after running through all the files it still came up with the same message.
could not run the script. an error occured.
could there be a mistake with the script code? I'm sorry I'm not familiar enough with it to figure it out.
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11. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
Paul Riggott Dec 5, 2012 6:59 AM (in response to savanna.smith)The code has been tested so that does work. The problem could be the text editor you are using to save the code as it must be plain text and some word processors add control characters.
If you could use ExtentScript Toolkit (This gets installed with most Adobe Apps) you could paste and save it out from that.
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12. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 7:06 AM (in response to Paul Riggott)Okay, thank you so much. I am trying that right now.
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13. Re: How to batch process psd's into swf's?
savanna.smith Dec 5, 2012 7:20 AM (in response to savanna.smith)I got it! For some reason I had an error with trying to use the ExtentScript Toolkit. I had initially made it in TextEdit, so I was suprised that it wasn't plain. I took a look at my preferences and realized the settings had to be changed to plain text as well as my font needed to be changed. Once I took care of those it worked perfectly. Thank you so much for your help Paul, it is much appreciated!