3 "Caption Maker" script questions

[hshull]

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

[peterkrogh]

Harrison,
1. THere are limited size options.  Sorry, if it does not size correctly, there's no easy way to fix it.  You could target a different size, then resize. Or you could go into the script and try to figure out how to resize the small type.  Or you could try the Professional Image Delivery rather than Captioned Print

2. The error reporting is a bit dumb, it's making its only guess when there is an error, and that guess might be right, but is more likely wrong.  You can *never* get it to run twice?  Are you sure you are targeting the right folder to work on?  Does it even start to do any work the second time?  Maybe Beardy knows what that error means.

3. Will definitely not work with Photoshop earlier than CS2.
Peter

[hshull]

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 

[peterkrogh]

Harrison,
Could it be targeting the same folder to drop the finished images, and the images all have the same names?
Peter

[hshull]

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 

[danaltick]

Harrison,

That is interesting.  I haven't encountered this problem.  I was also running with WinXP SP2 and CS2.  However, I'm now running it fine with the new CS3 Beta.  I noticed Dr. Brown put up a CS3 Beta version so I gave it a try.

By the way, the script does create a JPEG subfolder.  No way to disable that.

Dan