Does LayersToPNG.jsx work with ancient ver of Photoshop?

amcleod

Similar to this user, I'm having trouble running the LayersToPNG.jsx script:

http://esotericsoftware.com/forum/Layers-To-PNG-Script-Installation-6075

Importing the script gives me a similar error about a certain line not being a valid function.

I'm actually using Photoshop CS2 (yeah...). I see that upgrading fixed the issue for the person in that thread, but I don't currently have the ability to upgrade my installation.

I know it's unlikely, but I thought I'd ask: Is there any hope that I would be able to get the export script working? Or is my PS install just too damn old? I noticed some comments about people having kept older versions of the script file...

amcleod

Nate

If you post the exact error, it might be something reasonably obvious to replace with something more compatible with CS2.

I think I was using CS2 at some point with the script, so hope is out there. Somewhere. 😉 A place to start would be the script revision history:
https://gist.github.com/NathanSweet/c8e2f6e1d79dedd56e8c/revisions
You might first try scrolling to the bottom (the oldest revision), then click View, then Raw and copy the script. If that works maybe it's good enough for your needs, else you could try newer and newer revisions and use the one immediately before the first one that fails to work with CS2.

amcleod

Nate, thanks again for your help. Turns out the only (immediately) incompatible lines are app.putCustomOptions and app.getCustomOptions. When I comment out the saveSettings/loadSettings functions, the most recent version of the script (2014-12-04) appears to work fine.

(YESSSSSSSSSSSSS THANK GOD)

When I import the .json created by LayersToPNG into spine, I get a new skeleton created in my project. Is the images directory for the new skeleton supposed to be set automatically? Or is it expected that I have to manually set it to the right location?

Also, I'm attaching the version of the script here for any other people out there also using ancient versions of Photoshop.
I was able to run this version of the script using Photoshop CS2 (v9.0x196)