Photoshop CS3 opens all images at once during batch?

[yubbie2]

Hey everyone

I just wrote a really simple script that opens a PDF, resizes, flattens, adds a border, and saves as PNG for my brother. We need to run it on about 160 PDFs.

The problem is, when we batch run the action in Photoshop CS3, it tries to open ALL 160 IMAGES AT ONCE! WTF!

How can we have it do 1 at a time?

-Jesse

[MicWayWal]

Originally Posted by yubbie2

Hey everyone

I just wrote a really simple script that opens a PDF, resizes, flattens, adds a border, and saves as PNG for my brother. We need to run it on about 160 PDFs.

The problem is, when we batch run the action in Photoshop CS3, it tries to open ALL 160 IMAGES AT ONCE! WTF!

How can we have it do 1 at a time?

-Jesse

The action may be recorded wrong.
Questions:
Do you have an 'open' command in the action?
Do you have a 'close' command in the action?
Do you have a 'Save As' command near the end of the action.
Does the action complete all the commands of the action before it opens another image or does it open the images before completing ANY commands of the action?

[yubbie2]

I'm at work, but from memory the script does this:

Open
Resize (image)
Flatten
Resize (canvas)
Save as PNG
Close

But I tried it with the "override save as..." or whatever command, with no difference. Plus I also tried it with the 'open' command unchecked in the action palette. Should I reduce it to just the resizing actions, and avoid all open/close/save steps?

It appears to be opening all the images before starting any of the resizing... I say "appears" because we stopped it after it opened about 20 images (out of 160), as it clearly wasn't doing it the way we wanted.

[LWimages]

Consider using Bridge for your file selections.
First modify the action, and remove the Open command.
Put all the PDFs in one directory.
In Bridge, navigate to that directory, select all the files, and choose Tools menu > Photoshop > Batch
and choose your action.

This is how I just did my test action script and it opened the files one at a time.

[MicWayWal]

Originally Posted by yubbie2

I'm at work, but from memory the script does this:

Open
Resize (image)
Flatten
Resize (canvas)
Save as PNG
Close

But I tried it with the "override save as..." or whatever command, with no difference. Plus I also tried it with the 'open' command unchecked in the action palette. Should I reduce it to just the resizing actions, and avoid all open/close/save steps?

It appears to be opening all the images before starting any of the resizing... I say "appears" because we stopped it after it opened about 20 images (out of 160), as it clearly wasn't doing it the way we wanted.

There is your problem. You don't want the open command in the action. Delete the open command from the action. In fact I would start over. Start recording the action after the file is already open in PS.

The batch command will instruct PS to open each of the files in a certain folder. You do want to have the override folder checked and instruct the batch command on where to put the finished files.