Converter from Adobe PSD to GIMP XCF
This utility parses and prints a description of various structures inside an Adobe Photoshop(TM) PSD or PSB format file. It can optionally extract raster layers and spot/alpha channels to PNG files.
A reasonable amount of integrity checking is performed. Corrupt images may still cause the program to give up, but it is usually much more robust than Photoshop when dealing with damaged files: It is unlikely to crash, and it recovers a more complete image.
For more information on using psdparse as a library to your application, see 'example.c'
Tested with PSDs created by PS 3.0, 5.5, 7.0, CS and CS2, in Bitmap, Indexed, Grey Scale, CMYK and RGB Colour modes and 8/16 bit depths, with up to 53 alpha channels.
32-bit channels can be extracted, but only to 'raw' format files.
This software uses zlib which is (C) Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler.
To use the utility, run it giving the path name of the PSD file you want to inspect: ./psdparse filename
- For a guide to options, './psdparse --help'
- For detailed text output, use the --verbose option.
- To minimise text output, use the --quiet option.
- To extract PNG files of raster layers, use the --writepng option.
- To name layer files with numbers, instead of actual layer names, use --numbered option.
- To write an XML file describing the document and its layers, use option --xml.
- To write the XML to standard output (e.g. for redirection or piping to another tool), use option --xmlout.
- To write a text file describing layers, sizes and positions (list.txt), use option --list. This file is put in the same directory as PNGs.
- To process 'image resources' (metadata), use the option --resources. Information on image resources is printed to console, and XML if enabled.
- To process 'additional data' (layer types supported by Photoshop 4.0 and later, as well as objects such as patterns and annotations), use the option --extra.
- Normally, RGB images (and grey scale+alpha images) are written as composite PNG with channels combined in one file. To write individual PNG files for each channel, regardless of mode, use the --split option.
- To specify a destination directory for PNGs, use the --pngdir option followed by the directory path. This directory will be created if it does not exist. (By default, a directory is created next to the input PSD file, with '_png' appended.)
- To automatically create subdirectories when layer names include slashes, use the --makedirs option (for example, layers named "scene/house/roof", "scene/sky", "scene/trees/pine" will result in directories "scene", and in that directory, two directories "house" and "trees"; the files "sky.png", "roof.png" and "pine.png" will be in each respectively.) Without this option, slashes in filenames will be replaced by underscores (_). (N.B. In MPW, the directory separator is : instead of /.) Subdirectories may be arbitrarily deep.
This file is part of "psdparse" Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Toby Thain, toby@telegraphics.com.au
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.