PSPSVG(1)

📦 version 1.82, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💅 pspsvg — the glow-up your gradients deserve

okay bestie, so this is pspsvg, a user command, and it's about to convert PaintShop Pro® gradients (you know them, the .jgd and PspGradient girlies) into SVG — Scalar Vector Graphics. it's giving makeover montage. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS

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

🌸 DESCRIPTION

so pspsvg takes the gradient files that PaintShop Pro uses — which usually rock the extension jgd or PspGradient — and converts them straight into Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) format. iconic behaviour, no notes.

and here's the cute part: if you don't hand it a file as that final argument, it will read from stdin. and if you don't pass --output, it writes to stdout. so it just… flows through your pipes like it owns the place. main character energy fr. 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --backtrace-file path — point this at a file and it'll write a formatted backtrace there. heads up though: the file only gets created if a backtrace actually happens, which is typically when an error goes down. so it's a "just in case" bestie, not an "every time" bestie.
  • --backtrace-format format — picks the format of the backtrace that goes to the file(s) from --backtrace-file. your choices are plain, xml, or json. pick your fighter. 🎀
  • --comments-read path — reads comments from the path you give it and adds them to the output gradient. the format is just a plain-text multi-line document with no comment delimiters — the program adds those itself, because it's helpful like that.
  • --comments-generate — makes a comment with summary data in the output file. that's the date of creation, plus the name and version of the cptutils package. receipts, basically. 🧾
  • -g, --geometry widthxheight — sets the size of the SVG preview, in pixels. yes you literally write it like widthxheight. yes that's the vibe.
  • -h, --help — brief help. short king. 👑
  • -o, --output path — writes the output to path instead of stdout. very "I have somewhere to be".
  • -p, --preview — includes a preview in the SVG output. also go peek at --geometry while you're here, they're a package deal. 🫶
  • -v, --verbose — verbose operation. it will tell you things. it will not be quiet about it.
  • -V, --version — version information, obviously.

🔥 EXAMPLE

Create an SVG file from PaintShop Pro:

pspsvg -v -o foo.svg foo.jgd

look at her go. ✨

📝 NOTES

ngl the author could not find any public documentation for the PaintShop Pro gradient file format, so they straight-up reverse-engineered it for the very first version of this program. an improved analysis of the format, done by Olivier Berten, was used for the version that exists now. respect. 🫡

here's a thing you need to know: the PaintShop Pro format can be read by Photoshop, but Photoshop's native grd gradient format cannot be read by this program. not it. 🙈 so if you're trying to convert Photoshop gradients, go read the pssvg(1) documentation instead.

also, legal moment, keep it cute and keep it correct: PaintShop Pro® is a trademark of the Corel Corporation. Adobe Photoshop® is a trademark of Adobe Systems Inc.

💜 AUTHOR

J.J. Green

🌈 SEE ALSO

pssvg(1), svgx(1).

and that's the whole page, bestie — this was cptutils version 1.82, dated 9 July 2024. go convert something gorgeous. 💖✨🎀🦋

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