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How the program works?

Select a folder (see selectAllFiles) containing the files we want, including:
- Image Files .png .jpg .jpeg .psd .psb
- A text file .txt, containing all the text to insert in the images.
The program read the text file, recognizing Page Identifiers. Each time a page is identified, the text below is saved in memory. If not a single page was identified, the program does absolutely nothing.
- In case you have a image open, and selected ONLY a text file, everything in the file is used.
The program starts to open every image file and does the following:
- If disableStarterLayer is false, layers in starterLayerFormats will be created, and formatted.
- A groupLayer will be created OR selected (see alwaysCreateGroup)
- For each text line saved for this page, a text layer will be created inside the folder. It will be formatted as in defaultTextFormat OR one of the customTextFormats objects, if this line is identified the lineIdentifierPrefix. If a line starts with ignoreCustomWith, the line will ALWAYS be formatted as in defaultTextFormat.

Configuration File

The configuration file is a JSON file, used in the program to save external user options. Here is a Example File or you can open the default configuration file given to see how things are organized.

Main Properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
pageIdentifierPrefix	string	`">>"`	Used in the beginning of a line text (ignoring spaces), to identify a new page. A blank string `""` will deactivate this.
pageIdentifierSuffix	string	`""`	Used in the end of a line text (ignoring spaces), to identify a new page. A blank string `""` will deactivate this.
ignorePageNumber	boolean	`true`	This will make the program read the number between `pageIdentifierPrefix` and `pageIdentifierSuffix` (ignoring spaces) and try to find a file with the correspondent number to use.
prioritizePSD	boolean	`false`	When ambiguous files are selected (Example: `01.png` and `1.psd`), we select the file to use based on a list of priorities based on file extensions: `'.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.psd', '.psb'`. When `prioritizePSD` is true, we will prioritize the PSD and PSB files
selectAllFiles	boolean	`false`	Instead of selecting a folder containing files, select all files you want, including the text file.
alwaysCreateGroup	boolean	`false`	If this is true, it will ALWAYS create a folder by the name in groupLayer.name. If false, it will create only if it doesn't exists yet.
ignoreCustomWith	string	`""`	A line starting with this, will ALWAYS be formatted as in defaultTextFormat. A blank string `""` will deactivate this.
columnGroup	boolean	`false`	If `true`, every column of text, will be in a separated group.
disableStarterLayer	boolean	`true`	Disable `starterLayerFormats` functions.
disableCustomTextFormats	boolean	`true`	Disable `customTextFormats` functions.
groupLayer	LFO	`{ name: "Types" }`	This LFO object will control how the folder layer is formatted. If it have no name, it will use the default one. If a property is not included, it will use default ones from Common Properties.
defaultTextFormat	LFO	`{}`	This LFO object will control how the text will be formatted as default. If a property is not included, it will use default ones from Common Properties and Text Properties.
customTextFormats	Array<LFO>	`[]`	This is an array `[]` containing one or more LFO objects. Control specific text formats to automatically be used.
starterLayerFormats	Array<LFO>	`[]`	This is an array `[]` containing one or more LFO objects. Control layers that will be automatically created as the program runs.

Layer Format Object

This can be used in defaultTextFormat, customTextFormats, starterLayerFormats and groupLayer properties from the configuration file.

Common Properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
name	string	`"Default Name"`	The layer name.
visible	boolean	`true`	If the layer will be visible or not.
opacity	number	`100`	Layer opacity. Range from 0 to 100.
grouped	boolean	`false`	Layer clipping mask. Don't work on folders.
blendMode	number	`""`	Layer blend mode. See Blend Mode Options for options. Omit, or use a blank string `""` to not change anything.
allLocked	boolean	`false`	Completely block settings and contents of the layer. Will deactivate all 3 below.
transparentPixelsLocked	boolean	`false`	Edit only opaque portions of the layer.
pixelsLocked	boolean	`false`	Pixels can't be edited (with a Paint Brush for example).
positionLocked	boolean	`false`	Layer can't be moved.

Text Properties

Can only be used in defaultTextFormat and customTextFormats from the configuration file.

Property	Type	Default	Description
lineIdentifierPrefix	string	`""`	Can only be used in `customTextFormats` and is Obligatory. Omit, or use a blank string `""` to DEACTIVATE THIS OBJECT ENTIRELY. Identifies the type of formatting to use in a line of text. Will be ignored if `ignoreCustomWith` identifier was found before this.
size	integer	`0`	Font size. Omit, or use a zero `0` to not change anything.
font	string	`""`	Font name. Omit, or use a blank string `""` to not change anything.
justification	string	`""`	Text justification. See Justification Options for options. Omit, or use a blank string `""` to not change anything.
language	string	`""`	Text language, useful for auto-wrapping. See Language Options for options. Omit, or use a blank string `""` to not change anything.
boxText	boolean	`false`	If true, a TextBox will be used instead of a PointText.

Starter Layer Properties

Can only be used in starterLayerFormats from the configuration file.

Property	Type	Default	Description
duplicate	boolean	`false`	Is a duplicate from layer below/before. Can only be used from the 2 layer.
isBackgroundLayer	boolean	`false`	Turn this layer the background layer. Will override a lot of configurations.

Property Options

Justification Options

CENTER
CENTERJUSTIFIED
FULLYJUSTIFIED
LEFT
LEFTJUSTIFIED
RIGHT
RIGHTJUSTIFIED

Language Options

BRAZILLIANPORTUGUESE
CANADIANFRENCH
DANISH
DUTCH
ENGLISHUK
ENGLISHUSA
FINNISH
FRENCH
GERMAN
ITALIAN
NORWEGIAN
NYNORSKNORWEGIAN
OLDGERMAN
PORTUGUESE
SPANISH
SWEDISH
SWISSGERMAN

Blend Mode Options

NORMAL
DISSOLVE
DARKEN
MULTIPLY
COLORBURN
LINEARBURN
LIGHTEN
SCREEN
COLORDODGE
LINEARDODGE
OVERLAY
SOFTLIGHT
HARDLIGHT
VIVIDLIGHT
LINEARLIGHT
PINLIGHT
HARDMIX
DIFFERENCE
EXCLUSION
SUBTRACT
DIVIDE
HUE
SATURATION
COLORBLEND
LUMINOSITY
PASSTHROUGH

Example Configuration File

This is a commented configuration file as example. But remember, .JSON files CAN'T have comments.

{
  // These 3 Configurations determine how we will identify
  // a new 'page' in your .txt file:

  pageIdentifierPrefix: "[",
  pageIdentifierSuffix: "]",
  ignorePageNumber: false, // This will ignore the number inside identifiers
    // This example will identify lines like:
    // [1]
    // [02]
    //  [ 30 ]
    // And will try to find files like
    // "01.png", "2.psd", "30.jpeg" to insert this text into


  prioritizePSD: false, // Prioritize '.psd' and '.psb' over the other files
  // If have ambiguous files selected like "01.png" and "1.psd"
  // There is a order of priorities, that is:
  // '.psd', '.psb', '.png',  '.jpg', '.jpeg'  OR
  // '.png', '.jpg', '.jpeg', '.psd', '.psb'


  selectAllFiles: false,  // With this, you select every file manually, rather than a folder
  alwaysCreateGroup: false, // With this, it will always create a folder named by 'groupLayer.name' below

  groupLayer: {
    name: "Types",   // Folder name
    visible: false,  // Visibility of the layer
  },

  defaultTextFormat: {
    size: 16,                          // Font size
    font: "CCWildWordsInt Regular",    // Font name
    boxText: true,                     // A TextBox instead of a PointText
    justification: "CENTER",           // Justification
    visible: true,                     // Visibility of the layer
    language: "BRAZILLIANPORTUGUESE",  // Language
  },



  ignoreCustomWith: ".", // Lines starting with this, will always be formatted as default

  customTextFormats: [   // You can Add as much 'Layer Format Object's as you want
    {
      // Necessary:
      lineIdentifierPrefix: "#", // Lines starting with this, will be formatted as following

      // Optional:
      // Everything not included will be formatted as in 'defaultTextFormat'
      size: 12,
      font: "Chinacat",
      boxText: false
    }
  ]
}

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