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    <p>The straight answer is <strong>YES</strong>. Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop can all be scripted through COM. Any program that you make that can access COM (such as a .net language, C++, BCX, Autohotkey or Powerpro) can tell Illustrator, InDesign or Photoshop to do things. </p> <p>Here is an example for <a href="http://powerpro.cresadu.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Powerpro</a>(you will need powerpro's com plugin), and this works in CS4 and CS5:</p> <pre><code>Function ComLoad() ;;MAKE SURE TO CALL .@ComUnload WHEN EXITING FUNCTION CALLS! static objname="Illustrator.Application" static com_status, com_type static appRef=com.create_object(objname) endfunction Function ComUnload();;this is end the com calls and unload com com.unload endfunction </code></pre> <p>After you use the ComLoad() function, you then run any kind of method or function offered by the COM library. Here is how to use Powerpro to tell Illustrator to run your jsx or js file:</p> <pre><code>;Run a script from anywhere Function RunOtherScript(whatscript) If (file.Validpath(whatscript) == 0)do messagebox("ok","Whoops! That script doesn't exist!","ILL Runscript") quit endif .@ComLoad() appRef.DoJavaScriptFile(whatscript) .@ComUnload() quit </code></pre> <p>Here is an image of a floating toolbar that I made using Powerpro. The buttons are all attached to com functions. Most of the time I use the com functions to run external jsx scripts.</p> <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OGNYI.png" alt="enter image description here"></p> <p><strong>[edit]</strong></p> <p>There is another way! You can use the Adobe Configurator to create new panels which are capable of launching scripts. You can design the panel in any way you like, and the results are quite similar in effect to the powerpro toolbar I've described above. In fact, I moved from the powerpro toolbar to an Adobe Configurator Panel.</p>
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    1. COBut does that launch the Adobe apps when the COM is instantiated like manually opening the app and going through the script menu to execute the script but doing it programmatically? Or will this technique work GUI-lessly without the app GUI ever launching on the desktop? I noticed that for MS Office (at least earlier versions) would open the app like Word when COM was invoked and when done the GUI closes, so you briefly see it open to peform processing then close. I'd prefer a totally GUI-less option where possible.
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    2. COWell, you will have to write code to decide what to do if the COM function is called without the adobe app having been previously started, and you'll need to do that before you begin the COM calls. However, what you can't do is to call a COM function to an Adobe app without that app's GUI being open. MS Office is a different tale in some cases. But if the Adobe app is open, you can make GUI-less COM calls to it, say, from another custom app; but again, the Adobe app's GUI will have to be open. I suppose you might be able to "hide" the app window or something...
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    3. COIn the case I illustrated above, with my toolbar, since the toolbar only appears (thanks to powerpro!) when the Adobe app is open, I never have to worry about making sure the Adobe GUI is open before I run the COM scripts.
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