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Well, I knew that there was something I forgot to mention. :) I've considered the Gimp and its scripting capabilities, I do use it on occassion on Linux after all. However, that seems quite a HUGE beast to install, along with all the dependencies for accessing it under Perl, considering this should be installed on a number of computers (and thus, preferably packaged).

Also, Solo mentions limited support for PSD, any idea what that means? Limited support was what ImageMagick had too, which was why that wasn't usable.

Appreciate the suggestion though, my fault for forgetting to mention my thoughts on the GIMP up front. Sorry.

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by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 25, 2005 at 22:16 UTC

    I don't know how limited the PSD support is or isn't. I don't have Photoshop and don't deal with people who do, so I don't have any PSDs, and thus I can't say anything about that.

    Yeah, it's a very heavyweight solution. That's the only thing I know to suggest though. NetPBM, the “other” big processing package (and incidentally the one I like best) doesn't do PSD at all.

    The only thing I can still suggest is Imagero Reader — which you'd have to wrap with Inline::Java…

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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      Well thanks anyway for taking your time. :)

      I guess this is yet another area where there exists no open solutions. It's unfortunate, but hopefully someone with the skills will need this itch scratched in the future.

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        Image Magick claims read/write support for Adobe PSD format (search the page for PSD).

        The Gimp has support for RGB psd formats, and will fall over if the psd used CMYK (at least it used to).

        If for some reason both of these fail, Photoshop has an OLE interface you could use to automate the conversion.

        BTW, why would you expect there to be an open solution to a problem with a proprietary file format? I'm not surprised there are solutions, and I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't.

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