Peter-

    Nope. Source files are gathered into one folder and I am pointing the finsihed files to another folder. Additionally, the script is creating another folder titled "JPEG" within the destiantion folder for the captioned images.

    The script works flawlessly and I am psyched to have found it. I just can't get it to work 2 times in a row without giving all those error dialogs I mentioned earlier in the thread.

Harrison 

Peter-

Thanks!

1) I can work around this one

2) I am fairly certain that I went after the folder I was told to. I did it twice with the same effect. It runs perfect ly fine the first time through and then get the exact error messages in order as descbribed above. I can work around it by shutting down and restarting CS2 but it would be nice to just be able to run with as mnay as I want without stopping.

3) Right on. Thought so, but I wanted confirmation.

Harrison 

Hey all-

    I have just come across Russell Brown's "caption amker" script and am excited to include this into my workflow. I have come across three issues that I could not figure out nor find anything online about.

SPECS: Win XP SP2 and CS2

1) The script works flawlessly on horizontal images with medium font selected for the text. However, on verticals... the text at the bottom of the jpeg runs of the white border and is "incomplete." The verticals fit all the text in when I Choose "small" for the font size but it is getting close to illegible or at least a strain to the eyes. How can I get the verticals to work as nicely as the horizontals with the medium text or am I out of luck?

2) I can run the "caption maker" script once which it does flawessly. But when i try to run it again, I get a dialog box that says -

"Sorry something major happened and I can't continue. Do you want to see more info?"

I click yes and get...

"Reference error: Window does not have an instructor : 1092

I click OK and get...

"Br. Brown recommends that you delete the preferences for this script." And then gives me the file tree of how to find the file.

I delete the file and rerun the script but get the same problem. Shutting down CS2 and restarting allows me to rerun the script but of course all my preferences are gone so I have to re-enter everything and then we are back into the same old cycle of only being able to runb the script once before shutting CS2 down.

3) I currently have the script running on my WinXP machine with CS2. Can I install using the easy installer (DrBrownsInstaller1.5WIN.zip) on my Win2000 machine running PS 7.0? Due to my computer setup, I'd like to have this script running on this other machine.

Thanks - Harrison

Peter-

   The script works fine now. Not sure what was the issue. It is strange that when you start the script there is no indication that it is running and then after awhile (long even for small nubmer of images) a dialog pops up to tell you that it is done.

    Is there a way to use this script in CS2 or is it Bridge only.

    And on another topic but still script related... do you still provide any support for your metaframer script. I am trying to make it work and am having trouble.

Harrison

Peter-

    The script that you suggest works fine - albeit slowly. It does place the extension in the filename and I would really rather not have it in there. So we know that one works and the other, so there must be something in the "guts" of the Beardsworth script that is wrong. I'll keep poking around to see if I can identify anything and hopefully some resolution will be found.

Thanks - Harrison

peter-

   When I was given the info on a script to get the filename placed in the metadata under document title, I was given two links. The first first was the one that I listed above and the second was the one that you listed. I was told that the first might be better because it just put the filename into the metadata while the one that you suggest, puts the filename AND the extension into document title. I don't want the extension in there.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks - Harrison 

So I just found John Beardworth's script for setting the filename to the metadata in Bridge through some of my fellow D65 graduates. It is the script located under "Bridge" on the bottom right of the page at this link - http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/iview.php.

I downloaded the file.

I removed the .txt extension.

I installed the .jsx file into the proper folder in Bridge. All went well so far.

I decided to test the script out in Bridge on a folder holding three images. So I highlighted all three images and clicked on "tools." Under "batch rename" there was an option called "filename to metadata" with a flyout arrow. I opened the flyout menu and have tried all six options, but none of them do anything at all.

The three trial files were .TIFs from my 1Ds so I decided to try it on a folder with 6 jpegs. Still nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Also does this script work in photoshop CS2? What about PS 7.0? Any primers on how to load the scripts into these versions of PS and to then make them work?

This looks to be a great feature that I really want to incorporate into my workflow.

Thanks - Harrison Shull