Photoshop opening PDFs

[aoswood]

I am using the Photoshop configurator to open PDFs and rasterize them on difficult jobs. My issue is by default Photoshop selects bounding Box for the Crop too. If I open a PDF manually and change it to Media Box, all files there after will use that setting. Of course if Photoshop is closed it goes back to the default.



I found a Javascript for opening the file but I don't believe it is complete and doesn't run in SWITCH when I try in my Open with Script in the Photoshop configurator. I am sure I need to provide more info.



var pdfOpenOptions = new PDFOpenOptions();



pdfOpenOptions.antiAlias = true;

pdfOpenOptions.mode = OpenDocumentMode.RGB;

pdfOpenOptions.bitsPerChannel = BitsPerChannelType.EIGHT;

pdfOpenOptions.resolution = 300;

pdfOpenOptions.supressWarnings = true;

pdfOpenOptions.cropPage = CropToType.MEDIABOX;



Thanks

Andy

[freddyp]

When using a script to open/create a file you also have to open or create the file. You were only setting the options with which to open a PDF, but you were not opening it. Just add these two lines:



var infile = new File($infile);

app.open(infile, pdfOpenOptions);



$infile is the path to the input file that Switch passes to the Photoshop Javascript. That is documented in the help in the chapter "Javascript for applications".



Freddy

[aoswood]

Thank you that worked perfectly.



I will definitely be doing more with Javascripts and the Adobe Suite.



Thanks

Andy