Chapter 1 Introduction; About This Manual; Conventions In This Guide - Adobe 23101335 - Photoshop - PC Manual

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1.1 About this manual

This manual provides an introduction to scripting Adobe Photoshop 7.0 on Mac OS and
Windows
overview of requirements for scripting Photoshop.
Chapter two covers basic scripting terms, concepts and techniques. Experienced AppleScript
writers and Visual Basic programmers may want to skip to Chapter three for specifics on
scripting Photoshop.

1.1.1 Conventions in this guide

Code and specific language samples appear in monospaced courier font:
documents.add();
IMPO R TAN T:
Several conventions will be used when referring to AppleScript, Visual Basic and JavaScript.
Please note the following shortcut notations:
AS stands for AppleScript
VB stands for Visual Basic
JS stands for JavaScript
The term "commands" will be used to refer both to commands in AppleScript and methods in
Visual Basic and JavaScript.
When referring to specific properties and commands, the manual will follow the AppleScript
naming convention for that property and the Visual Basic and JavaScript names will appear in
parenthesis. For example:
"The display dialogs ( DisplayDialogs/displayDialogs ) property is part of the
Application object."
In this case, display dialogs refers to the AppleScript property, DisplayDialogs refers
to the Visual Basic property and displayDialogs refers to the JavaScript property.
Photoshop 7.0 Scripting Guide
Introduction
®
. Chapter one covers the basic conventions used in this manual and provides an
Most code examples in this manual are brief snippets that will not work as
fully functional scripts.
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