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I see that this is in the 'me too' category.  If at all possible, please implement applescript support.  Working through colourizing thousands of black and white images, I would love to automate the setup process (open in Affinity Photo, change document colour space, select appropriate swatch palette, duplicate layer).  Started writing the automator workflow, only to find that AP does not have applescript support.  Dang.  Double dang.

True, applescript has not been updated recently, but since it is basically a suite of apple events passed between programs, it does not really require constant fiddling and updating.  Compiling for the mac has the standard suite built in, it should not take a huge amount of effort for your developer team to start adding scripting steps to file level processes ...

 

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Affinity Photo is also an application for Windows. Do you think Applescript will work on Windows?

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On 1/9/2019 at 7:36 PM, bfindlay said:

I would love to automate the setup process

https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Macros_Batch/macros.html

https://affinity.help/photo/English.lproj/pages/Macros_Batch/batchjobs.html

Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.4.0.2301
Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.3155.
Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130.

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AppleScript is problematic but there are plenty of alternatives.

Here is a long in depth discussion on this. There is not really much more to add to this topic.

 

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  • 3 years later...

There's nothing problematic about AppleScript, it works fine when a developer creates a dictionary and support for it on the Mac. Plenty of other programs have Windows versions and yet still provide AppleScript support for their Mac version. Adobe for example provides automation support using JavaScript which is cross platform, in addition to AppleScript support on the Mac.

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