Re: FLASH: off topic file conversion

[John Dowdell]

At 10:53 AM 8/14/0, Krista McLean wrote:

> the design file is a psd. - any way to make this readable in

> Paintshop pro (the graphic program used by the client)?

> I get a can't read adjustment layers error... using PS 5..


Sorry... although there's documentation about the PSD format, this is

mainly for writing PSDs. They describe how to set parameters for various

"layer effects" (similar to the LiveEffects(tm) introduced in Macromedia

Fireworks 1.0), but they don't describe the way they prefer to render these

effects. That means that other applications can't display such effects as

Photoshop can.


Instead, consider rendering that image down to a single flat plane of

pixels, such as a TIFF format. Many applications can read the various pixel

planes within a PSD too, and if the client's version of Jasc's PaintShop

Pro can handle PSDs with multiple "layers" then just rendering any text and

effects should bring them what they want.


jd






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