“Convert Actions File” is an actions files utility script using the JSON Action Manager scripting library, and more specifically its module jamActions.
This stand-alone script written in JavaScript is used to convert a Photoshop actions file (.atn) into a folder of directly executable scripts (.js) which can be further edited; they are made up of sequential calls to the function jamEngine.jsonPlay.
Please refer to the Photoshop Actions File Format page for detailed information about the structure of an actions file.
Tool-tips displaying their respective full path name are available while hovering over the actions file text field and the destination folder text field.
Scripts (Waves Frame.js and Wood Frame – 50 pixel.js) obtained from a converted actions file (Frames.atn):
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 © 2011-2015 by Michel MARIANI
This Software is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v3.
Download the Zip file and unzip it.
Move the entire script FOLDER (Convert Actions File Folder) with its contents into 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.