
The Solution: Preferences has an option to curb that problem, as well. The Problem: You’ve migrated to a new version of Photoshop, except you are forced to use the tabs feature whenever you open a document or create a new one. Documents and New Files Always Open In Tabs The Solution: Press shortcut key Ctrl + K to bring up your preferences and under General, you’ll find “Export Clipboard.” This will stop you from copy-pasting image data from Photoshop, but not into Photoshop.

The Problem: Photoshop hangs up every time you try to switch programs, and often gives you a strange error about the clipboard. Clipboard Export Error When Switching Programs If you are working in Quickmask mode (pictured above right) you can press shortcut key Q to return to normal, or simply click the icon in your toolbox. You should also be able to see if you are in a mask channel, another potential pitfall. If you are, click the combined RGB channel (pictured above, center) or the combined CMYK channel, if you happen to be working in CMYK. From there, Navigate to your channels panel, and check that you’re not working in a quick mask channel, or any other extraneous channel. Go to Select > Deselect if you have an area selected with the marquee tool that you might have forgotten or can’t see. ~ aDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES) įor (var i = 0 i < Solution: This can be one of several problems. ~ Test for text objects then copy content. I've commented out the portion that crashes AI. Here is the actual script used for capturing the "Layout" artwork. I thought purging the clipboard might fix that problem.


The problem is, since there is still residual content in the clipboard it is pasted into the "Tray" template in the space that should be left blank. On very rare occasions there is NOTHING in the "Layout" template so the correlating "Tray" position should be left blank. I use a series of script/macros to copy-and-paste elements from "Layout" templates to "Tray" templates, in preparation for lasering. App.executeMenuCommand('copy') also crashes on Mac.
