Scripting

[kirk23]

13 minutes ago, chessboard said:

Affinity Photo is going to support java script soon . Tell me why you would not be proficient with making scripts for Affinity Photo and give reasons.

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Affinity Photo is going to support java script soon . Tell me why you would not be proficient with making scripts for Affinity Photo and give reasons.

 

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As an AI developed by OpenAI, I am not capable of directly creating or executing scripts for specific software applications like Affinity Photo. Here are a few reasons why I would not be proficient in making scripts for Affinity Photo, especially considering its upcoming support for JavaScript:

1. Lack of Direct Interaction with Software: I don't have the capability to interact directly with software applications. My functionalities are limited to providing information, advice, and coding examples based on my training data. This means I cannot test or run scripts in Affinity Photo or any other software.

2. No Real-time Feedback and Debugging: Script development often requires real-time feedback and debugging. Since I can't run scripts or interact with the software, I cannot provide real-time debugging or feedback specific to the environment of Affinity Photo.

3. Limited to Pre-2023 Knowledge: My training includes knowledge only up to April 2023. If there have been specific updates or features added to Affinity Photo after this time, I wouldn't be aware of them. This limitation affects my ability to provide current and accurate advice for scripting in the context of the latest version of the software.

4. Generic JavaScript Knowledge: While I can assist with general JavaScript coding advice, Affinity Photo may have specific APIs or frameworks unique to its environment. Without specific knowledge of these, my assistance would be limited to general JavaScript programming practices.

5. No Personalization to User Preferences: Effective script writing often involves understanding the user's specific needs and preferences within the software. As an AI, I lack the ability to understand and incorporate individual user preferences and workflows in a script tailored for Affinity Photo.

However, I can certainly help with general advice on JavaScript, explain programming concepts, and provide examples that might be relevant to a scripting context. This could be useful as a starting point for someone looking to create scripts for Affinity Photo once it supports JavaScript.

 

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[michalmph]

On 1/15/2024 at 1:43 PM, kimtorch said:

Here's a typical workflow for us (we're a newspaper/magazine publishing company). Editorial is written in a (proprietary) app running MySQL (most editorial systems do similar). The writers never open InDesign.

@Jon W@Tim France@kimtorch Guys, this is it. This is probably the most important event in this thread, next to the actual feature announcement.

I understand Kim's irritation. Let's just get over this and work towards a good scripting system that recognizes client's needs.

I come from the graphic design side. I barely dealt with in-line text formatting. The 400 pages catalog took 24-27 minutes when rendered to viewport in InDesign CS6. This process required saving every 15 pages so InDesign would clear an internal memory buffer, otherwise it could crash randomly. I couldn't get it to work headlessly or by generating the IDML, and there was never time to refactor.

To give you a scope of the problem:

I had no idea about the text formatting tags. No one taught me that. I didn't find it in the documentation. I didn't know it existed. I used InDesign's built in formatting tools to set styles (line numbers, paragraphs, etc). I can write an RPA that syncs multi-user input from Photoshop and Illustrator, merge them into an individual asset, and push it to a desired position in an InDesign doc. Or do automatic asset management if you need to develop POS for 30 store locations, each with different dimensional requirements. I could stack hundreds of regexes to process stuff without conflicts. But I didn't know about the text tags up till now. (thanks btw :D).

I'd suggest you guys figure out how to get meaningful feedback that would let you write a feature spec and gather necessary documentation reference. This thread is peanut gallery, and we need an actual need assessment, and features based on the results.

[kimtorch]

1 hour ago, michalmph said:

Guys, this is it. This is probably the most important event in this thread, next to the actual feature announcement.

I'd suggest you guys figure out how to get meaningful feedback that would let you write a feature spec and gather necessary documentation reference.

Both Tim and Jon have been very responsive and I've passed them some additional information offline. I believe they understand the functionality and importance of tagged text in relation to scripting. Whether this results in its adoption is unclear but at least they have a better idea of its value.

[v_kyr]

On 9/12/2018 at 1:12 AM, kimtorch said:

Having used Macs since day one I'm not aware of any standard Mac app which supports python but literally thousands that support Applescript.

Well depends on how you define "any standard Mac app" here. So for me those are mostly by Apple build apps and those do come with their bindings to there own Apple macOS API scripting solutions (namely AppleScript/JavaScript).

Adobe apps (ID, PS, AI, LR ...) do use mostly Javascript and LUA for scripting.

Many other apps (especially multi-platform available opensource ones) make use of direct embedded Python interpreters here, as for example Scribus, Sublime Text, Gimp, Inkscape, Darkroom, digiKam, ... and so on.