Photoshop CS2 Backwards Scripting Compatability

[Andrew]

Are there aspects of Photoshop CS2 that actually break scripts that work in Photoshop CS? Maybe we can generate a summary of compatability issues here.

Andrew

[MickM]

I just came across one today after checking out a question in the Adobe forum. There is a bug in resizing in CS2 that wasn't in CS. I haven't investigated in detail as yet but resizing without resampling no longer works. This would certainly break existing code. I'll post more details later. I've posted this in the Adobe forum.

[Andrew]

Good one MickM - when you're ready just stick a report in the Photoshop Scripting Bug Repository.

Andrew

[Larry Ligon]

I found one concerning the use of textitem.paragraph.width. I have a CS script that creates a document at 300 dpi and inserts a very long line of text into a pointtext textitem. I then convert it to paragraph text to find out the length using the width property. I can then calculate the number of lines necessary to fit the width of the desired text box. I can then adjust the height of the paragraph box to accommodate the number of lines. This won't work in CS 2. I have to change the dpi of the document from 300 to 72. Then the value of the paragraph.width is correct.

Here is the original CS script:
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Larry

[George E Smith]

Larry's problem is also seen my apps. I set a paragraph text layer to a pixel width in CS which works fine. In CS2 it seems to ignore the do text in pixels command and just uses the pixel amount I give it as points?

[bjorke]

As I've posted elsewhere on the forum, it seems to me that the default location of pasted items (smaller item pasted into larger canvas) has changed.

[johnbeardy]

Another change is that actions including scripts fail if you launch them from Bridge. Not sure if it's on all platforms - mine is XP Pro.

Workaround is to save such actins as droplets and drag files from Bridge and drop on the droplet.

John