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Ikkyusan1 / typeset-buddy

A typesetting extension for Adobe Photoshop CC.
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Suggestion: Ability to update speech bubbles #3

Open dexman545 opened 6 years ago

dexman545 commented 6 years ago

Sometimes, the TL, PR, or the TS miss an error in the script and have to make changes to fix it. As things like the number of bubbles shouldn't change, unless something was really messed up, the ability to update the text in the bubbles would be nice, either per page or for the whole selection.

Ikkyusan1 commented 6 years ago

Ah, I pondered over something like that for a long time. Ultimately, I decided that the translation script would be read-only, at least from the extension's standpoint. The main reason is : the script is written by people and I don't want to mess with the script's formatting. I leave that to the users. If typos and such need to be fixed, you can just keep the script opened in a separate text editor when you typeset, make the correction and save the file there, and hit the "reload script" button to see your changes appear in the extension.

dexman545 commented 6 years ago

Sorry for not being clear - I meant that when changes are made to the script in the text editor, and the script reloaded, for the ability to see differences between what is currently typeset and what is now in the script and to then update the type layers.

Ikkyusan1 commented 6 years ago

That's completely different indeed, thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, it's quite impossible to achieve something like that in a practical way. The main reason is PS layers have a life of their own. The extension merely creates the text layers and leaves the rest to PS. After that, there's no way to determine if a particular text layer corresponds to a particular bubble in the script (and vice versa). Thus it's impossible to know if a particular text layer is different from the bubble it (supposedly) originates from.