I have an issue that may well not be possible to solve 'out of the box'. I'm running fireworks 8 and would like to to be able to run the:
Commands->Document->Split to layers
and have the resulting layers created using the name of the slice that it created the layer for. So for example, if I have 3 slices in my png, called 'Head', Shoulder' and 'Arm', I'd like that command to create the layer name that corresponds to the slice name. As it currently stands, when running this command, the default layer names created are sequentially named 'Layer 1', 'Layer 2', 'Layer 3' etc etc.
The reason for this requirement is due to the fact that I then wish to use the Export command to save the individual Layers out to named png files that use the 'Slice names ('Head.png' etc), rather than the default Layer names. Now I know I can manually rename the layers to match the Slices, and Export to a folder as required. However, in my real life scenario, I have over 50 Slices per document that require this treatment and I have 100's of documents at a time to 'batch' process. So my idea was that I would be able to run a command (or create some sort of macro) that would allow me to create the layers with the same name as the slice that they contained.
This would make my life SOO much simpler as I could then totally automate the process based on a set of source images located within a folder structure, rather than opening each file, running the above command, renaming each layer manually (error prone of course) and then running the Export function.
Can anyone offer advice on finding a solution to this?? I hope I'm not the only one to have come across this requirement.
I've added a line to the Split to Layers command here. If you save that as Distribute to Named Layers.jsf in the same folder as the original command (in CS5.5 I found it in Configuration/Commands/Document), I think that should do what you need.
That said, jsf is fairly unpredictable in my experience (for example, that command seems to miss the default name of things like Rectangles until they've been renamed), so I'm not certain if it will work 100% of the time. Also, the script skips over the Web Layer which contains slices in 5.5 - I can't remember if the set up is different in 8. Hopefully that gets you some of the way there though.