"Jump to graphics editor"

undavide · Post by **undavide** » Sat May 14, 2011 6:45 pm

Hello,
I've been told that in older Photoshop versions (PS 5, 6, 7, CS at least) that I've no more installed on my machine, there was a "Jump to graphics editor" menu entry somewhere, that allowed on the fly sending of the open document to the software XY.
You could add an alias in this folder:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop CS\Helpers\Jump To Graphics Editor\Qimage.exe.ink
and the appropriate graphic program would show in the menu.

Now, this options seems to have disappeared (from CS2?) and I've been asked whether it is possible to make it work again or not.
Do you happen to have any suggestion about this one?
AFAIK, the only way to script this kind of things (see for instance Emailer panel by Russell Brown) requires an intermediate step (saving a temp copy to disk).
Thanks in advance

Davide

pfaffenbichler · Post by **pfaffenbichler** » Sun May 15, 2011 12:56 pm

Do you mean something like placing the image in Indesign or Illustrator?
That should be achievable via BridgeTalk if the file exists on the hard-drive.

With XPress I doubt it can be done with JavaScript, but possibly with AppleScript on Macintosh.

undavide · Post by **undavide** » Sun May 15, 2011 5:18 pm

pfaffenbichler wrote:Do you mean something like placing the image in Indesign or Illustrator?
That should be achievable via BridgeTalk if the file exists on the hard-drive.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I've been asked if I could restore that "old" behavior (that by the way I did not even remember) because they want to send the image to Qimage (a printing program) without saving a temporary copy of the file - I've been told they did it with older Photoshop version. I wonder whether this "Jump to graphics editor would leave traces to Scripting Listener - but I've no more CS installed.
Regards,

Davide