README.md

Gruppe Adler PAA Photoshop Plugin

PaaPhotoshopPlugin is a Photoshop File Format Plugin for opening and saving Arma PAA images in Photoshop. For more information on the Arma PAA file format check out the public PAA file format specification.

Installation

Windows

• Download the latest PaaFormat.8bi from https://github.com/gruppe-adler/PaaPhotoshopPlugin/releases.
• Move the PaaFormat.8bi into <Photoshop Installation Directory>\Plug-ins\.

Features

• Open, Open As menu commands can be used to read *.paa files.
• Save, Save As menu commands can be used to write *.paa files.

Limitations

• As per the PAA file format specification only images where the height and width is a power of 2 (2^n) are supported.
• Only the "RGB Color" image mode is currently support.
• Only the DXT1/DXT5 PAA Formats are currently supported.

Dependencies

• Adobe Photoshop SDK
• grad_aff

Building

• Download and unpack the latest Adobe Photoshop SDK
• git clone this repository into adobe_photoshop_sdk_[version]/pluginsdk/samplecode/format
• Build and install grad_aff
• Set the environment variables GRAD_AFF and GRAD_AFF_DEBUG to the directory where you installed grad_aff
• Set the environment variable PS_DIR to your Adobe Photoshop installation directory
• Open the PaaFormat.sln with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or later and build the solution