“Convert Custom Shapes File to SVG Set” is a custom shapes files utility script using the JSON Action Manager scripting library, and more specifically its module jamShapes.
This stand-alone script written in JavaScript is used to convert a custom shapes file (.csh) or a custom shapes preferences file (CustomShapes.psp) into a set of SVG files.
Please refer to the Photoshop Custom Shapes File Format page for detailed information about the structure of a custom shapes file.
The SVG files use the same format than the SVG code generated by the script Get SVG Code from Path.
Tool-tips displaying their respective full path name are available while hovering over the custom shapes file text field and the destination folder text field.
Warning: the time needed to generate the set of SVG files is logically proportional to the actual number of custom shapes in the file, but above all, it depends on how many control/anchor points the paths are made of. Occasionally, for some large sets of complex custom shapes, the generation can be particularly slow, i.e., may take more than half an hour…
SVG file (Fleur-De-Lis.svg) obtained from a converted custom shapes file (Ornaments.csh):
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This script can be used in Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later. It has been successfully tested in CS4 on Mac OS X, but should be platform agnostic.
This Software is copyright © 2015 by Michel MARIANI.
This Software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.
Download the Zip file and unzip it.
Move the script to the Presets/Scripts folder in the default preset location of the Adobe Photoshop application. On next launch, the script will appear in the File>Automate submenu.