Photoshop PSD support for Gnome
Wednesday, 17. December 2008, 19:07:22
Today i get a real amazing message from Jan Dudek. He started developing a PixBuf load for Photoshop PSD files for the Gnome Linux Desktop. That means PSD support for any Gnome application like the image viewer EOG, the document viewer Evince and in combination a thumbnailer for *.psd or *.pdd files for Nautilus too. Jan wrote "I'm not a designer, but in my work I often have to use PSD files and, as you have written on your blog some time ago, viewing them under Linux is a bit troublesome. So I decided to try to write GdkPixbuf loader that would let applications like gThumb or Eye of Gnome open PSDs. After some time it seems to be working, but it's still far from complete. Anyway, the loader handles RGB images with 8bit color depth - I assume these are most common (at least most PSDs on my hard disk are such ones). It is possible to add support for CMYK, Grayscale and others."
Hey Jan you are my personal hero at all and i will support your development by a donation that i promised once. You can grab a Deb package that works with Ubuntu Hardy and Ibex at the Google Code page.
How to create a PSD thumbnailer for Nautilus
* open a terminal
* Setup a thumbnailer based on Evince
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@x-psd/command -t string "evince-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o"* Enable the thumbnailer
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/thumbnailers/image@x-psd/enable -t boolean "True"
Enjoy
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Anonymous # 17. December 2008, 20:40
Awesome. I hope this ends up shipping with Gnome by default. I couldn't get it working on Fedora 10, but that probably has more to do with my own incompetence.
jandudek # 17. December 2008, 21:27
Yeah, I agree it would be great if Gnome/GTK developers included the loader in GTK.
Anonymous # 17. December 2008, 23:19
Stiven
you can try alien to convert deb packages to rpg
Anonymous # 17. December 2008, 23:21
Stiven
you can try alien to convert deb packages to rpm
PS: sorry for mistake
Wutske # 18. December 2008, 11:00
Going to try installing it on openSuse 11.0 after lunch
Wutske # 18. December 2008, 15:34
Anonymous # 5. January 2009, 05:21
I noticed it seems that psds loaded using this have locked layers. Text is not able to be edited but can be deleted not sure if this is just me or what
area42 # 14. January 2009, 16:51
In which software you use it to load PSD files?
Anonymous # 21. January 2009, 07:22
Noticed that as well, I can delete text but not edit it. (gimp 2.4 on Fedora 8).
area42 # 21. January 2009, 14:43
Anonymous # 27. January 2009, 15:23
Thanks for this info... and in fact for your whole blog. Really nice, helpful, and much appreciated by me.
I am making the switch from 20 years in the world of Windows to that of Linux. I've been using Linux for some years now, but never "switched" completely over to it, as I had too many applications I wanted to run on XP.
One of the big things keeping me on Windows (and still having me dual booting and using XP on Vbox at this stage) is my love of Adobe Indesign CS3/4. Nearly all other apps I considered essential I have managed to change to linux apps,,, and your blog has helped me with a few finishing touches such as Inkscape to replace Illustrator.
Once I find something that matches up to InDesign I suspect I'll be free of running Windows. I have a few apps using Wine, and I can live with that.
Again... thanks for sharing your design adventures in Linux Land.
Jonathan
Anonymous # 26. May 2009, 15:01
This must be implemented as default for Gnome! It's very useful.
Anonymous # 2. September 2009, 14:22
thanks :D