Editing Photoshop PSD text layers programmatically

Question

I have a multi-layered PSD, with one specific layer being non-rasterized text. I\'m trying to figure out a way I can, from a bash/perl/python/whatever-else program:

Answer 1

If you don't like to use the officially supported AppleScript, JavaScript, or VBScript, then there is also the possibility to do it in Python. This is explained in the article Photoshop scripting with Python, which relies on Photoshop's COM interface.

I have not tried it, so in case it does not work for you: If your text is preserved after conversion to SVG then you can simply replace it by whatever tool you like. Afterwards, convert it to PNG (eg. by inkscape --export-png=...).