Script: Watermark Variations Plus (and others)

Description: 19 Sep '04 - Running a script using an action when the Actions Palette is docked in the palette well causes debug window to appear

This appears to confuse Photoshop document handling. WV+ needs to know which of the open document is the watermark file (specified by the user in the script dialogue) and which is the target document (identified as the active document when the script is loaded).

This may affect other scripts as well, so the advice is not run the any Variations Suite scripts using actions when the Actions Palette is docked in the palette well at the top right of the Photoshop desktop.

Workaround: Use the Actions Palette undocked; use a function key to start action (works with AP in well); run the script using File>Script.

Status: 19 Sep '04 - No plans for further action

Script: Watermark Variations Plus

Description: 23 Oct '04 - using the %copyrightNotice token when no copyright message has been assigned to the image causes the debug window to appear.

Workaround: Make sure that your document properties contain all the fields you intend to use in the text string. In interactive mode, check the results of substitution using [Test Text]. Thanks to Frank Reynolds for reporting this.

Status: 27 Oct '04 - I've established the problem is caused when the text generated from token replacement is blank because the data are not present in the document. It's not only the %copyrightNotice that causes this.

Description: 23 Oct '04 - pasting a watermark image with a different colour space from the target images causes script to hang.

Workaround: ensure that colour preference settings are set to issue warning when pasting to a different colour space. In this case, Photoshop pops a message asking whether it's OK to convert to the target space. Script continues normally after this is confirmed.

Status: 23 Oct '04 - still being investigated.