Droplets from 6.0 to CS

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JeffreyDeRousse
May 6, 2004
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I have about 50 droplets created in 6.0.

I am trying CS. I imported the actions into CS, but the 6.0 droplets won’t open CS. Do I need to re-create all the droplets or is their a way they can converted to work with CS? I currently have both 6.0 and CS installed on the same machine and need to keep it they way until some testing is done.
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Danny_Raphael
May 6, 2004
There have been a few reports of droplets not working in CS, but nothing definite on a solution and it definitely isn’t hitting all CS users.

Are you able to create a droplet in CS and have it work?

What version of Windows?
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JeffreyDeRousse
May 7, 2004
Yes, I am able to create the droplet in CS and have it work. The machine is a Win2k, dual XEON, 1G RAM. Actually we have two machines that are identical and possibly adding one more.
I am running the test on one of them before purchasing another upgrade for the other machine. These machines are rasterizing about 3000 PDF’s(between 1.5 and 10MB for each PDF) a week and that number could potentially increase by another 1000 over the next couple of months. I am looking for some production gains.

Thanks for the reply.
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Danny_Raphael
May 9, 2004
Hard to get production gains when droplets won’t work. 🙁 And I have not read any reports where CS has better throughput than previous versions, but I can understand the desire to upgrade.

In the other "Droplets don’t work" under CS situations, the OS in each case was Windows 2000. I see a pattern here. Unfortunately there has been no clear solution.

Plan B: Manually recreate your droplets under CS? Not pretty, but functional since CS will play CS-created droplets.

Have you migrated your actions palette from PS6 to CS? (If you’re not familiar with the "migrate all actions at once vs. one .atn file at a time," wave the flag. I don’t have the link offhand, but will gladly hunt it down if you need the how-to.)
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JeffreyDeRousse
May 10, 2004
I know have CS installed on it’s hard drive.

Thanks for the info. I have loaded the actions (.atn files), saved them, and re-created a couple of droplets to try-out. If I drop the files on the droplet it starts CS but won’t open the file. It doesn’t prompt for anything, the application just sits idle. I have also tried with CS already started and no joy.
I can go into the open step of the Action and start that step by double clicking it and it prompts me for a file and then opens it up after I select a file.

I will provide you with what ever you information you need if you want to help.

Thanks
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Danny_Raphael
May 11, 2004
Jeffrey:

I just did a search and discovered a workaround I’d forgotten about. This person experienced symptoms very similar to yours. Here’s the thread:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.2cd0564c>

In a nutshell his workaround was:
* Uninstall PS 7
* Reinstall CS (had to specify PS7 serial number during the PS CS upgrade) * Droplets worked under CS

I don’t know if it’s feasible/practical to uninstall PS6 in order to complete the testing, but it might be worth a try.
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JeffreyDeRousse
May 11, 2004
Danny,
I am going to look into this.

FYI:
I have ran 4 time test on the our work.

I used the same 25 PDF’s each time (1.5 – 8MB in size) version 6 did the job two times and it took approx. 16 and 1/4 minutes each time, CS did the same job twice in approx. 5 and 3/4 minutes each time. I was able to get CS to do the action by going to File\Automate\Batch.

Does Adobe have any charts or numbers that I could use to back up my test that you know of?

I will be working on gettin our guys here to do the recommended procedure that were spoke about in the thread you recommmended.

Thanks a bunch for the direction!
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Danny_Raphael
May 11, 2004
Same machine, same version of Windows, same images, PS 6 vs. PS CS the only difference?

Wow. Chopping nearly 2/3 off execution time is a substantial throughput improvement. Sounds a little too good to be true to me, but if it stands up, that’s fabulous.

RE: Adobe charts/performance comparison info
I’m not aware of any, but that’s not to say they don’t exist.

Here’s what I’d suggest. Start a new thread with a title something like, "CS vs. PS6 performance comparison" (or the like) and report your test results and questions (again) there.

Why a new thread? That will attract new eyes/interests/responses from those more familiar with that sort of thing, plus it doesn’t introduce a new subject to an existing thread (this one).

RE: CS will play the actions via File > Automate > Batch That makes sense since you invoke FAB directly inside PS CS, whereas (as I understand it) a droplet executable (.exe file) must first communicate with Windows which tosses the ball to Photoshop to initiate the action recorded in the droplet. It seems to me it’s the Windows to Photoshop relationship that’s broken, perhaps from the perspective that Windows gets confused as to which Photoshop to use when it comes to playing the droplet: PS6 or CS. But that’s just a guess.

The uninstall CS, unininstall PS6, reinstall CS apparently "cleans up whatever was confused."

Do keep us informed as you move forward. Your experiences may be helpful down the road to others surfing in your wake!

Break a leg on the next phase…
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JeffreyDeRousse
May 13, 2004
I had CS installed on my computer (Win2K Service Pack4) at work, which has never had any version of PS installed on it, loaded the actions, and created a couple of droplets to try it out…
Everything worked great.
First I will have to re-create the 112 droplets and then we will uninstall Version 6 from the production machines and install CS.

Thanks for all the guidance Danny.

Next set of tests for production gains will be on a MAC in the very near future! We are going to be looking for more automated capabilities from the use of Acrobat and PS.

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