Paint Shop Pro to Anime Studio Pro 5

crake · Post by **crake** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 6:13 pm

I've been using Paint Shop Pro (version 7 so its pretty old) to do my vector drawing, as I get on a lot better with the traditional node handles, for some time and have just got into animation. Is there any way to import my old psp files into Anime Studio Pro through a script or a file converter? I can't afford Illustrator and when I try and save a file in psp as an eps format it merges to a rastor layor, so I don't know if I have any options other than draw vectors in AS. Any help would much appriciated

crake

human · Post by **human** » Wed Apr 25, 2007 7:38 pm

OK, if you absolutely *need* to do this, and you absolutely *can't* shell out all the bucks for Illustrator, you'll have to resort to a laborious workaround.

I don't know of any way to convert your PSP vectors, but if you first flatten them to a raster, you can recover them as vectors again using Inkscape, a very fine vector application.

In order to import these into AS, they will have to be in Illustrator format, which requires that Ghostscript-- another free vector application--- be installed along with Inkscape.

Note further that currently Inkscape can only digitize black and white rasters, so if you have colored shapes, you'll have to split them into various black and white representations, and recombine them and recolor them in Inkscape.

(Yeah, I told you this won't be easy.)

I haven't tried to export to AI, but the black and white rasterizer works fine (the native format is SVG).

Let me know what you think of this.

jhbmw007 · Post by **jhbmw007** » Thu Apr 26, 2007 4:31 am

But there's still the problem that AS doesn't really import AI files all that well... at least not for me. It would probably be worthwhile to get used to drawing in AS- it will make things a lot easier when the time comes to animate.