NAME

pspsvg - convert PaintShop Pro® gradients (jgd, PspGradient) to the SVG format.

SYNOPSIS

pspsvg [-g geometry] [-h] [-o path] [-p] [-v] [-V] [-2] [path]

DESCRIPTION

The pspsvg utility converts the gradient files used by PaintShop Pro (which usually have the extension jgd or PspGradient) to the Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) format.

The program will read from stdin if a file is not specified as the final argument, and write to stdout if the --output option is not specified.

OPTIONS

--backtrace-file path

Specify a file to which to write a formatted backtrace. The file will only be created if there is a backtrace created, typically when an error occurs.

--backtrace-format format

Specify the format of the backtrace written to the files specified by --backtrace-file, one of plain, xml or json.

--comments-read path

Read the comments from the specified path and add them to the output gradient.

The format is custom XML which should be fairly easy to generate, see the output of --comments-write for examples.

--comments-generate

Create a comment with summary data (the date of creation, name and version of the cptutils package) in the output file.

-g, --geometry widthxheight

Specify the size of the SVG preview in pixels.

-h, --help

Brief help.

-o, --output path

Write the output to path, rather than stdout.

-p, --preview

Include a preview in the SVG output. See also the --geometry option.

-v, --verbose

Verbose operation.

-V, --version

Version information.

-2, --svg2

SVG output is version 2.0 of the format. Note that version 2.0 is not yet completed and browser support is minimal.

EXAMPLE

Create an SVG file from PaintShop Pro:

pspsvg -v -o foo.svg foo.jgd

NOTES

The author could find no public documentation for the PaintShop Pro gradient file format and so reverse-engineered it for the first version of this program. An improved analysis of the format by Olivier Berten was used for the present version.

The PaintShop Pro format can be read by Photoshop, but Photoshop's native (grd) gradient format cannot be read by this program. To convert Photoshop gradients, see the pssvg(1) documentation.

PaintShop Pro® is a trademark of the Corel Corporation. Adobe Photoshop® is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

AUTHOR

J.J. Green