It turns out, the graphic my client was testing the script with was
corrupt and could not be opened with Photoshop CS even manually.
I had asked them to open a file manually, but they didn't use the
same file!
So, mystery solved!
The alias syntax works just fine.
Happy Friday!
Diana
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