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Article #19891Re: Converting PM 6.5 Script to ID 2.0
From: Olav Kvern
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:58
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:58
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Vincent-- You don't have to buy Visual Basic--you can use VBA (which comes with Word, Excel, etc.), or VBScript (which is already on your system--all you need is a text editor), or you can download the Visual Basic 5 "Control Creation Edition" (CCE) from Microsoft (this is the best choice--it's at: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/tools/cce/default.asp)>. There is no internal scripting engine in Photoshop. Many people considered the proprietary scripting language in PageMaker "silly"--so we implemented scripting in InDesign (and Photoshop and Illustrator, for that matter) using the platform standard scripting systems: AppleScript on the Mac OS and VB in Windows. Sorry, I somehow got the impression from your earlier messages that you already had Visual Basic. Thanks, Ole
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