What do you mean Larry, grab it.
On your boot drive open applications > Utilities and find Grab. I suggest putting it on your dock. Start it and go to the menu selection, move the selection dialogue if it opens over your history palette. Drag over what you want to save / print and do it! Enjoy! It’s part of OS X.
You can print the History Log in CS.
In Prefs./General:
Check History Log and Text File. Choose a location to Save the File. (Mine is called "Photoshop Edit Log.txt" and is on my Desktop.
When you want to print your log, just open "Photoshop Edit Log.txt" and choose Print.
I don’t think Grab can get more than what shows on the screen. This is a dialogue box that needs four scrolls to see whole document.
Ok, Ann, did that. but then what? How do I tell photoshop to put that history info (which is in metadata), into the edit log doc?
<< Check History Log and Text File. >>
Meaning ALSO check "Text File".
(You are allowed to check BOTH Metadata and Text>)
Then you will have an openable TEXT file in your "Photoshop Edit Log.txt" file which can be printed.
Sorry. did not understand that at all Ann.
Scottie:
Take it again from the top. SLOWLY
Open Photoshop Preferences/General:
In the lower half of the dialog:
Select "History Log" and also select "Text File" or select "Both". Choose a location to Save the File and give it a name.
(Mine is called "Photoshop Edit Log.txt" and is on my Desktop.)
From the "Edit Log Items" pop-up, choose "Detailed"
When you want to print your History log, just open the file "Photoshop Edit Log.txt" (that is now on your Desktop) and choose Print.
We are making progress Ann:
Ok, I now see the log, and it showing me things I did in last few days.
But that’s not what I really want.
A friend sent me a file. In this file is HIS history of what HE did to make this a great file. It’s very long and extensive. Its in the metadata under history. I want to print this out.
Anyone know if possilbe?
(I did paste it in Word, but it gets all crunched and looks like hell)
I find that you can just go to "File Info/History"; copy and paste into TextEdit; and print from thereno need for Word.
Control-click in the TextEdit window and choose "Font/Show Fonts" and set the font and size that you want to use.
Have you actually seen how this turns out?
It does not retain the line breaks.
Have you actually seen how this turns out?
Yes!
It does not retain the line breaks.
You’ve screwed something up. All line breaks and other formatting are retained.
All line breaks and other formatting are retained on my system too.
Try selecting all of the type in your TextEdit file and assigning a decent font to it there; then Print to PDF to check that its working.
Also try re-saving your Photoshop file (on your System) before trying to copy/paste the file info. from that document.
Yes, it worked in text edit, which I generally never use. But if Word it’s a mess. Wonder why?
Conflicting Fonts?
Try emptying Office’s private Fonts folder and managing them with FAPif you need them at all.
Thanks Ann. What and where are private fonts, and what is fap?
Thanks Ann! I didn’t know either tip. Amazing what one can do!
