Psd.rb

#1

Post by chamza » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:01 PM UTC

Psd.rb
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Re: Psd.rb

#2

Post by envex » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:48 PM UTC

I feel like this could be used to automatically convert a simple .psd web layout to non-shitty HTML and CSS.

Re: Psd.rb

#3

Post by smtm » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:49 PM UTC

So, will there be writing .PSD files as well? This would be the über thing. Imagine: upload a .PSD and get back a clean HTML layout + bootstrap_overrides.css

Re: Psd.rb

#4

Post by kellysutton » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:50 PM UTC

smtm wrote: post #3

So, will there be writing .PSD files as well? This would be the über thing. Imagine: upload a .PSD and get back a clean HTML layout + bootstrap_overrides.css

The library supports some writing, but it's mostly limited to translating/scaling layers.

Re: Psd.rb

#5

Post by meltingice » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:51 PM UTC

envex wrote: post #2

I feel like this could be used to automatically convert a simple .psd web layout to non-shitty HTML and CSS.

There is certainly the potential for that. The library still has a little ways to go until that's possible.

If anything, I think it would be a cool project to build on top of PSD.rb instead of bloating the core library.

Re: Psd.rb

#6

Post by freerobby » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 7:55 PM UTC

Great work and thanks for building this. There's a lot of room for improvement in automating manipulative photoshop exports, and I look forward to seeing what people do with this, especially in terms of building command line tools.

Re: Psd.rb

#7

Post by mistercow » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:01 PM UTC

>Adobe has never produced an easy way for developers to work with the format.

That's not entirely fair. Adobe has openly released a comprehensive description of the format which is, as far as I know, accurate. The problem is that the format itself is a heap of features piled on year after year with apparently no regard for doing things consistently.

Re: Psd.rb

#8

Post by mistercow » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:04 PM UTC

smtm wrote: post #3

So, will there be writing .PSD files as well? This would be the über thing. Imagine: upload a .PSD and get back a clean HTML layout + bootstrap_overrides.css

>So, will there be writing .PSD files as well?

Writing PSD files is considerably easier than reading them. To write, you need only support the features you actually use. To read, you must support everything. For example, Photoshop always saves its layers RLE compressed (or it did when I last wrote code to write PSD files, which was about five years ago), but the format supports uncompressed layer data just fine. So if you're just trying to get basic interoperation with Photoshop, you don't have to worry about RLE at all.

>Imagine: upload a .PSD and get back a clean HTML layout + bootstrap_overrides.css

Why would that require writing .PSD files?

Re: Psd.rb

#9

Post by meltingice » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:07 PM UTC

mistercow wrote: post #7

>Adobe has never produced an easy way for developers to work with the format. That's not entirely fair. Adobe has openly released a comprehensive description of the format which is, as far as I know, accurate. The problem is that the format itself is a heap of features piled on year after year with apparently no regard for doing things consistently.

The file spec released by Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/devnet-apps/photoshop/fileformatashtml/) is actually outdated, wrong in some places, and can be incredibly vague at times.

Re: Psd.rb

#10

Post by gnufied » Tue, Jul 30, 2013, 8:18 PM UTC

envex wrote: post #2

I feel like this could be used to automatically convert a simple .psd web layout to non-shitty HTML and CSS.

Look up markupwand.com an YC alumni. The problem is harder than it looks. Now, I am not an expert in PSD format but a PSD that can be automatically converted to HTML has to be specifically formatted. For example, if you merge text layers with image layers, it becomes difficult to extract the information.