Opening PSD file in Adobe Illustrator using ExtendScript

Question

I'm trying to write a script to open PSD files in Adobe Illustrator and do some batch processing. The problem is I can't provide the needed open options.

From docs:

Application

• open(File file, DocumentColorSpace documentColorSpace, Anything options)

  Opens the specified document file.

...

OpenOptionsPhotoshop

Options for opening a Photoshop document, used with the open method.

So, I'm assuming I can use OpenOptionsPhotoshop with open method, but how?

I tried doing this:

var psdFile = new File('file.psd');

var options = new OpenOptionsPhotoshop();
options.preserveHiddenLayers = true;

app.open(psdFile, DocumentColorSpace.RGB, options);

But it says:

OpenOptionsPhotoshop does not have a constructor.

Any ideas how to pass the options to the open method?

Answer 1

You shouldn't be creating an OpenOptionsPhotoshop object, you need to access it somehow. You can access it like this:

app.preferences.photoshopFileOptions.preserveHiddenLayers = true;

I found this by looking here:

https://yearbook.github.io/esdocs/#/Illustrator/Preferences/photoshopFileOptions https://yearbook.github.io/esdocs/#/Illustrator/Application/preferences

Quick edit, the documentation for the open method is here too. The second and third params are optional.

https://yearbook.github.io/esdocs/#/Illustrator/Application/open