These repetitive and often unnecessary tasks eagerly await every opportunity to steal precious time away from far more productive activities. Well consider those days gone because there's a much better way now. From the time-consuming process of downsampling images for the web to preparing files for a service bureau to converting multiple documents with large file sizes into PDFs, a host of varying activities greatly benefit from the wonders of automation . Now in Canvas, you can automate many tasks by simply creating a script. Scripting will enable your computer to run Canvas on its own and to execute a series of assigned tasks automatically in the background without the need for user intervention.
Many scripting languages are currently available.
For Windows, the most common ones are Visual Basic, VBScript, and JavaScript. Although some Scripting applications are quite expensive and require extensive knowledge of programming, it's certainly not the case for all of them. In our following examples, we will use VBScript. VBScript is one of the most popular and easiest programming languages to learn. Another reason for choosing VBScript is that it can be developed and viewed with any text editor including Notepad.