Auto populating text fields. Text insert question. 2

[stevef22]

Hello and good day to everyone, glad to be a part of this forum! I am going to stick around this site, GREAT INFORMATION!

My question is how do I insert text faster? I am bulding a plaque. Booooring yes I know but necessary. Anyone know how to set up "pre-determined" text fields that populate from an internal or external text? Right now I have to >duplicate layer>drag layer to new spot>enter in new text. It would be really neat if PS could populate from a file like web-site populate pages from other text files. If anyone knows a faster way to enter in this text then your are the PS GURU. Thanks again.
Steve

 

[duncdude]

... you never know, you might quite enjoy it!?


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Sorry guys, overlap here!
Duncs, silly question but does the .ps file load into photoshop for you?
I'm testing in linux and Gimp.


Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

Hi dude. On the Mac it can be dragged & dropped - and i guess it knows from the extension, and the existence of the %!PS, that it is a valid Postscript file. It could also be opened by:- Open / select file type of 'Generic EPS'

... hope this helps!


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[stevef22]

Very cool, im installing activeperl and every thing is working well. Very good idea. The .ps works as well!

 

[stevef22]

You people are turning me into a damn programmer.

 

[duncdude]

you have already installed Perl ... and you have run the script successfully!?


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[duncdude]

sorry - misunderstood

you are in the process of installing ... silly me!

glad you have the .PS importing O.K. - that is a good start. you can, obviously, add effects as the background is transparent


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[stevef22]

No not yet, im still trying to figure out this perl app. All I see is a bunch of HTML docs inside the install directory. What box do I need to click on to run the perl script?
Steve

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

No luck here Duncs.
You say this is Encapsulated Postscript.
What's the difference between ps and eps?
Would it take much to generate ps?


Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

can you help Steve installing Perl?

it is actually just PS - not 'encapsulated'. i am not clever enough to explain the difference - sorry! i imagine ghostscript would see it fine!?


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

hmm
ok
ActivePerl can be downloaded from here:

http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/?mp=1

It should be a usual windoze kind of things to install.
You know the kind of thing, lots of clicking of "next" buttons! ;-)


Trojan.

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

I tried "gs" and "evince" with your postscript as well as gimp and all three failed.
evince gave this:

** (evince:4440): CRITICAL **: ps_document_next_page: assertion `gs->busy != TRUE' failed

Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

Trojan - do you have ghostscript installed?


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Stevef22,
How did you get on with the .ps file that Duncs generated for you?



Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

he's opened it fine i think


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Yes Duncs, of course.
That's what "gs" is.


Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

sorry - did not see your previous post

i converted the .PS into a PDF for you:-

http://www.my-mot.co.uk/Trojan/plaque_names.pdf

Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[duncdude]

it could be that the syntax i use is only happy with 'Preview' and 'Photoshop' on my Mac (OS X Panther)

i have done all sorts of work with Postscript - without FULLY understanding what i am doing - but i've managed to get some good results

it opens up into Photoshop easily - i will try to think of what we can do...


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

Your first postscript file worked happily in everything here.
I'm not sure what's wrong with this one.


Trojan.

 

[duncdude]

Oh - i didn't know you had success previously!


Kind Regards
Duncan