How to go from SVG to format for PathItem

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August 11, 2022
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Hi, all!

Asking for scripting advice. I’m working on a javascript for adding fake negative borders to photos in Photoshop. A crucial step for me is to be able to convert a SVG from a common vector illustration app to a format I can use with Document.pathItems, to add to the document collection of PathItems, then change it to a working path and then convert that to a selection.

What would you say the easiest way to get from a SVG to a format a could use for a PathItem?

I have a little bit of experience with coding, but none with scripting PS...

Thank you in advance!

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c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

Funny, search results seem to indicate that most people want to go the »other way«.

Quite frankly I would rather open the svg-file in Illustrator and collect the points there (or copy/paste them to Photoshop and collect there).

H

hertzeAuthor

Inspiring

Yeah, I abandoned this approach and went with drawing paths directly in PS and exporting them from there, as in that other script you've been helping me with!

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

It should be possible to read the svg to extract the information, but svg seems to represent a path’s points in a rather different way than Photoshop.

So unless it is a very frequent task it might not be worth the trouble.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Paths

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