Paint Shop Pro support - Splitting up preset shapes?

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Splitting up preset shapes?

Linda Antonsson

2004-09-22, 7:22 pm

Hi,

In PSP 7 and 8, preset shapes were done in large files containing sets
of shapes. In PSP 9, it appears this approach has been abandoned and
instead each preset shape is a single file.

Would it be possible to convert, perhaps through a script or some other
relatively quick and painless method, PSP 7 & 8 preset shapes into a
single file for each shape? That way it would be easier to weed out
duplicates or change conflicting names.

Linda

T a n y a

2004-09-23, 12:19 pm

It weeds out duplicates anyway... PSP would tell you
that when it would find 2 different folders with
files named the same. It would ask you if u'd like
to duplicate (copy) first... and if you didn't want it to,
u could just click ok... and it would forget all about it.
It takes one file, and forgets about the duplicate.

I don't see the big fuss, sorry.
If your still worried about duplicates... they happen
to have the same shape, but named differently...
weed through them yourself. PSP can only do so much...
it's not human u know... it just helps you out somewhat. ;)

--
Cheers,
- T a n y a

"Linda Antonsson" <linda@mbox321.tele2.se> wrote in message news:2rann2F17ctqtU1@uni-berlin.de...
Hi,

In PSP 7 and 8, preset shapes were done in large files containing sets
of shapes. In PSP 9, it appears this approach has been abandoned and
instead each preset shape is a single file.

Would it be possible to convert, perhaps through a script or some other
relatively quick and painless method, PSP 7 & 8 preset shapes into a
single file for each shape? That way it would be easier to weed out
duplicates or change conflicting names.

Linda

Trev

2004-09-23, 12:19 pm

"T a n y a" <tanyaiscrazy@tigerstormfleet.com> wrote in message
news:10l4h1fkhi5i317@corp.supernews.com...
> It weeds out duplicates anyway... PSP would tell you
> that when it would find 2 different folders with
> files named the same. It would ask you if u'd like
> to duplicate (copy) first... and if you didn't want it to,
> u could just click ok... and it would forget all about it.
> It takes one file, and forgets about the duplicate.
>
> I don't see the big fuss, sorry.
> If your still worried about duplicates... they happen
> to have the same shape, but named differently...
> weed through them yourself. PSP can only do so much...
> it's not human u know... it just helps you out somewhat. ;)
>
> --
> Cheers,
> - T a n y a

Problem is that with vector shapes they may not be actual duplicates but
contain layers with a name used in an other shape For example the gear wheel
is made up of more then one circle Or should I say ellipse. which was not a
problem at one time but unless each ellipse layer is named ellipse 1,
ellipse 2, and so on then it might stop say Moon being in the list of shapes
because that as an ellipse.

Look how many times polygon or polyline appears in what looks like a simple
shape created in Corel or even some Microsoft clip art in office.
Sue shock placed a script in the script or resources forum a while back
that will rename the layers where any conflict appears

>
>
>
> "Linda Antonsson" <linda@mbox321.tele2.se> wrote in message
> news:2rann2F17ctqtU1@uni-berlin.de...
> Hi,
>
> In PSP 7 and 8, preset shapes were done in large files containing sets
> of shapes. In PSP 9, it appears this approach has been abandoned and
> instead each preset shape is a single file.
>
> Would it be possible to convert, perhaps through a script or some other
> relatively quick and painless method, PSP 7 & 8 preset shapes into a
> single file for each shape? That way it would be easier to weed out
> duplicates or change conflicting names.
>
> Linda
>
>
>

Linda Antonsson

2004-09-23, 12:19 pm

Trev wrote:
> "T a n y a" <tanyaiscrazy@tigerstormfleet.com> wrote in message
> news:10l4h1fkhi5i317@corp.supernews.com...
>
>
>
> Problem is that with vector shapes they may not be actual duplicates but
> contain layers with a name used in an other shape For example the gear wheel
> is made up of more then one circle Or should I say ellipse. which was not a
> problem at one time but unless each ellipse layer is named ellipse 1,
> ellipse 2, and so on then it might stop say Moon being in the list of shapes
> because that as an ellipse.
>
> Look how many times polygon or polyline appears in what looks like a simple
> shape created in Corel or even some Microsoft clip art in office.
> Sue shock placed a script in the script or resources forum a while back
> that will rename the layers where any conflict appears

The main issue is that shapes that came with 7 & 8 were bundled into
groups of shapes with an overall name for the file and each shape named
individually within the file. Some of the same shapes have now also been
shipped with 9, but then as separate files. That's why I'd like to break
up the bundles into separate files so that I can easily weed out the
duplicates.

Linda

LindaN

2004-09-23, 12:19 pm

"Linda Antonsson" <linda@mbox321.tele2.se> wrote in message
news:2rfn1tF19jvicU1@uni-berlin.de...
> The main issue is that shapes that came with 7 & 8 were bundled into
> groups of shapes with an overall name for the file and each shape named
> individually within the file. Some of the same shapes have now also been
> shipped with 9, but then as separate files. That's why I'd like to break
> up the bundles into separate files so that I can easily weed out the
> duplicates.
>
> Linda

Couldn't you just select one of the shapes from the 7/8 library, drag it out
on a transparent vector canvas with 'create as vector' and 'retain style'
enabled. Rename the main vector layer and the first layer at the top layer
of the first group (just below the main vector layer). File > Export >
Shape. Assign a new name > Ok.

You'd have to do this for each 7/8 shape in the shapes library (bundle as
you put it) that you want to create a separate file for. Do you plan to edit
each separately or something that you need to do this? Just curious why
someone would go through the motions.

PS: I thought I read somewhere that Suz Shooks has some sort of script that
makes a shape from an open image and exports it to a shape library. I'm not
sure what her site is but you'll probably find her over in the scripting
forum on the Jasc site (jasc userforums).

Take care,
Linda

Linda Antonsson

2004-09-24, 12:22 pm

LindaN wrote:

> Couldn't you just select one of the shapes from the 7/8 library, drag it out
> on a transparent vector canvas with 'create as vector' and 'retain style'
> enabled. Rename the main vector layer and the first layer at the top layer
> of the first group (just below the main vector layer). File > Export >
> Shape. Assign a new name > Ok.

Yes, that would do the trick, I should think. I was essentially looking
for a way to automate that process, since some of those shape libraries
I downloaded for 7 & 8 were quite packed with shapes. :)

>
> You'd have to do this for each 7/8 shape in the shapes library (bundle as
> you put it) that you want to create a separate file for. Do you plan to edit
> each separately or something that you need to do this? Just curious why
> someone would go through the motions.

The main reason I want to do it is that 9 seems to have abandoned the
idea of shape libaries (in the sense that all shapes that came with 9
were in their own individual files), and given that naming conflicts
occur between individual shapes, not shape libraries (that is, if you
have a shape named Arrow in Library 1, and a shape named Arrow in
Library 2, they will conflict), it is easier to avoid conflicts if you
can see all the individual shapes in the directory that they're kept in.

>
> PS: I thought I read somewhere that Suz Shooks has some sort of script that
> makes a shape from an open image and exports it to a shape library. I'm not
> sure what her site is but you'll probably find her over in the scripting
> forum on the Jasc site (jasc userforums).

I'll take a look at that, thanks. :)

Linda