One big reason I switched to Acorn is its robust Applescript support, meaning I can automate just about any process. While I am an expert at using Keyboard Maestro to do UI scripting to accomplish the automation I need, most other users are not. There is no Applescript or Javascript support. The effect renders AP useless for automation of any kind. In order words, the clipboard data is saved inside the macro and that data is always pasted into whatever other image I run my script in, not the new data from a new file I'm working with. When I recorded a a macro to make a selection, copy the contents of that selection and paste (my goal is to bring the right half of a book that was scanned so both sides will be closer and I can hide the ugly book binding from my image).the data that is pasted is always the original data from the file I created the macro with. Having Macros was a good idea, but they are strange and difficult to use. That.doesn't work in AP in a standard way at all. One of the most Mac-like systems going back to 1984 is that you draw a square marquee box, then add to the selection by holding the shift key, or subtract from the selection if you draw more marquee boxes holding the option key.

This is not standard activity on any Mac program I can think of. Perhaps the biggest weirdness, the tool I select is for the current document is not 'sticky.' If I switch to another document, the tool is reset to the tool I was using when I had that document open. This is a Photoshop action that I just couldn't un-learn. Here are the major reasons why I moved to another app (Acorn) as my main image manipulation app over AP:Ĭommand clicking of objects does not select their layer (and, while held, activate the Move tool). I moved from Photoshop to AP and enjoyed its new features, while struggling to either re-learn new muscle memory, it was just too hard.

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