Text, CSV, or XLS files to Text Objects

ezgoodnight · Post by **ezgoodnight** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 12:42 pm

Hi, PS-Scripts,

This may not be the best place to post this, but I could use some help with a project. I'm not a programmer and I've barely scripted in JS/PS but I'm willing to pay for your expertise if you can help me get this done. That is if you're interested. Tell me what is fair.

I have lists of text that I can type up in CSV, XLS, or text files. If they have to be text objects in a Photoshop document, that could be done as well, but it would be easiest to work with something in a spreadsheet format.

The script should pull text and insert it into named text objects in a file it specifies. Theoretically I should be able to use different documents, change the absolute filepath in the script, and insert the named text objects in new documents so the script finds them.

Let me try and make it less abstract. Say I have 100 files I have to make for 100 customers. I want to insert the 100 customer names into a Photoshop file with an absolute filepath. Theoretically I should be able to look at what you've scripted, duplicate it, and add new text objects. You may script only "name," but I assume I should be able to add a new section in the script that should allow me to pull additional information to insert "line 2" or "date" or whatever other information needs inserting.

TBH, based on a lot of the expertise I see on here, this is probably an easy problem to solve, I just don't have the knowledge needed to script this in a reasonable amount of time.

Mike Hale · Post by **Mike Hale** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:33 pm

What you are asking for sounds a lot like the built-in data driven graphics feature of Photoshop. Data driven graphics is easy to set-up than a custom script. I would give that a try first. If you need something done that data driven graphics can't handle post back with fuller details about what you want done.

ezgoodnight · Post by **ezgoodnight** » Mon Oct 14, 2013 2:42 pm

I'll look at some how to videos on that. I appreciate it!

ezgoodnight · Post by **ezgoodnight** » Mon Jan 13, 2014 2:53 pm

Mike, I just wanted to update that this was indeed the perfect solution. It only took a few hours of tooling around and I was able to do this for both Photoshop and Illustrator. Thanks for the education.