GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 305955
Import Paint Shop Pro .PAL palette files
Last modified: 2008-01-15 12:55:06 UTC
Distribution/Version: XP Prof Ok, I dont know how to explain this I would like to know how Can i get more Palettes... I know I can make them, but I want to CONVERT .PAL (PSP Extention), and .ACT (PhotoShop Extention) palettes to .GPL (GIMP Extention) So i can use different ones from different places So ic an always keep uptodate and be good at what I do. Frainkly is a there a program, or something that i can use to convert .PAL / .ACT files to .GPL files so I can use the GPL in GIMP? Since I dont knwo if this is a bug that I cant use PAL or ACT or if i can and doesnt work, this is why I posted this here. Please help me. -Kethlar
First of all: bugzilla is no help forum - You formulated a question - asking for help like this should be sent to the mailing lists, or to appropriate forums like gug.sunsite.dk, or www.rautu.unicamp.br/gimp (portuguese - but it is ok if you ask something in English there). There is an import palette option, by right clicking on the palettes dialog, which should allow the reading of GIMP palette files, RIFF and Photoshop ACT files (according to bug 158297 - I have not tired it myself) On the other hand, there is currently no way to import PSP palettes into the GIMP, and it would be a nice thing to be there. So it is fine to consider your entry as an enhacement request - which I am doing now. And finally, the problem with the file formats you mention is that these softwares, having a politics of information retaining - opposed to information sharing as in Free Software projects like the GIMP - do not publicize the internal file organization for these palette files. That means that developers of other programs that want to use these files have to either find a reverse engineered spec for the files, or reverse engineer them thenselves. You can give a hand here, if you want this to show up in the GIMP - and start by looking for specs for PSP palette files (possibly the vendors of the software have it docuemented, but I doubt it) - point the specs here, if you find any - or help the developers to reverse engineer it. That may be done by attaching a simple and a complex palette file here, and if you are able to, to take a look inside the files, and describe what you can figure out of it.
You are in luck today. .pal is a plain text format. I just have to figure out what the first number on the first line means, and porbably I will be able to hack the GIMP palette importing routines to work with it as well.
Created attachment 47059 [details] [review] Implements importing of PSP palette files Proposed patch implements reading of plain text JASC's Paint Shop Pro palette files in a transparent way.
Created attachment 47060 [details] Sample PAL file for testing Sample PSP PAL palette found in the WWWild - can be used for testing proposed patch. I had tested it with other files as well.
Thanks for the patch. 2005-05-31 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/core/gimppalette-import.c: applied patch from Joao S. O. Bueno Calligaris that adds support for loading PSP color palette files (bug #305956).
Thank you very much I really do appreciate all the help. Iam sorry I did a 'bug #305956' I hit the wrong key 'F5' and i refreshed it while it was in the post mode by accident, and I couldnt figure out how to remove the other bug request thingy. Also I didnt knwo if it was an Interface Problem, or an Enhancement Request, beucase I didnt know if there really was a problem or if it was never implemented. Iam sorry. As for the not saying the other programs names, I didnt know. Some people dont know what the palette extentions were and I wanted to give as much information as possible. Again Iam sorry for any problems, and I thank you so much for all your help.