Pixelmator Pro / AppleScript: No placeholder property for layer class

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Pixelmator Pro / AppleScript: No placeholder property for layer class

Hi, folks! Hoping someone on the Pixelmator (or AppleScript?) team runs across this.

I've had Pixelmator Pro for a month or two now and I've got to say, I'm a big fan. This is a top-notch image editing program with a dirt-simple interface at a fraction of the cost of Adobe's offerings. Well-done, all around!

I was very pleased to discover the AppleScript support, as well, but the one thing that I really wanted to be able to automate turns out not to be supported. Could a placeholder property (or, better still, sub-class) please be added to the layer class? It's not possible to define multiple layers as placeholders at once through the GUI, which is why I was looking into automation. But turns out AppleScript can't do it either.

Many thanks!

Andrew

MacBook Pro (M1 Pro, 2021)

Posted on Nov 1, 2025 7:09 AM

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VikingOSX

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Nov 1, 2025 8:12 AM in response to volfied

No Apple employees participate in these strictly user-supported, public communities, so unless Apple has added a Provide Feedback menu item on the Application menu, you have no means to share issues with the product team. Hopefully, this will eventually get added if not currently present.

You are restricted to what you see in the AppleScript Dictionary for Pixelmator.

I do not have Pixelmator installed as I use the Affinity products, and now the free Affinity Studio. These do not offer AppleScript support.

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