I am having a heck of a time trying to automate a Filter preset. There isn’t anything in Automator to do it sadly and when I try to write an applescript I get this error
" error “Acorn got an error: Can’t make “Embossed Shadow Icon” into type document.” number -1700 from “Embossed Shadow Icon” to document"
The code I am trying to use is
load filter preset “Embossed Shadow Icon”
Is there a particular syntax that Applescript is looking for?
You’ll need to have the “name” parameter in there:
load filter preset name "Embossed Shadow Icon"
Let me know if that doesn’t work (and let me know what version of Acorn and MacOS you’re using as well).
-gus
Actually it is
load filter preset document 1 name "Embossed Shadow icon"
The only thing worse than AppleScript is…
Any chance on Shortcuts support?
Update: Actually the document reference isn’t needed if you run the command inside a tell document block which is where I suspect you got your example from. This is one of the reasons why AS drives me batty 
I’ve actually been looking into Shortcuts lately, so it’s something I want to do.
It is still fiddly but not in the same way that AppleScript is