Digimarc Prompting Interferes with Batch

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Dan_Heller
Dec 30, 2003
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I’d like to keep the digimarc prompting silent so I can batch process adding digimarc id’s to images that may or may not have them. If an image already has a mark, it prompts me that it’s already there, which I don’t care about, and it stops the batch.

Also, if the "File Info" has a WEB copyright already there (having nothing to do with Digimarc), then digimarc prompts that the field has already been filled in with other data. There should be an option to keep it silent by either ignoring the message and overwriting the field with the appropriate digimarc URL, or leaving the field alone. Again, stopping the batch is bad.
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YrbkMgr
Dec 30, 2003
Dan,

I don’t know that there’s a direct route to solve the prompting issue but you could rename the digimarc plug-in in the plug ins folder.

There’s a knowlegebase article that suggests doing that when you want to speed up loading of PS and you don’t need the digimarc plug-in. Of course, if you need the digimarc plug-in for what you’re doing, that wouldn’t help you, but that’s all I can think of.

Peace,
Tony
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MarcPawliger
Dec 30, 2003
In article
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I’d like to keep the digimarc prompting silent so I can batch process adding digimarc id’s to images that may or may not have them. If an image already has a mark, it prompts me that it’s already there, which I don’t care about, and it stops the batch.

We will pass along the suggestion to Digimarc.

Also, if the "File Info" has a WEB copyright already there (having nothing to do with Digimarc), then digimarc prompts that the field has already been filled in with other data. There should be an option to keep it silent by either ignoring the message and overwriting the field with the appropriate digimarc URL, or leaving the field alone. Again, stopping the batch is bad.

Agreed. The use the of copyright field is historic and as Digimarc puts its own information there when the image is marked, it was agreed the plug-in would not silently overwrite the information. There should be a default behavior during batch (probably not to overwrite) so you can do what you wanted to do.

–marc
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Dan_Heller
Dec 30, 2003
There should be a default behavior during batch (probably not to overwrite) so you can do what you wanted to do.

I suggest the actual dialog itself have a toggle/checkbox where it forces overwrite of the URL field. This allows the user to specify the desired behavior himself; so, when he records this action as part of an action set, the right thing (user’s intent) will happen.

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