Re: Photoshop Plug-ins

Raj Gandhi writes:
 > Okay, so it has something to do with the extension of the plug-in I'm 
 > trying to use.  One is .8bf and Gimp recognizes it.  The other (of 
 > course the one I really want) is .8bi and Gimp appears to ignore it.

 > What does this mean?  Am I out of luck with .8bi plug-ins?

Yes. .8bi files aren't filter plug-ins, they are format plug-ins.
pspi (the GIMP Photoshop plug-in interface plug-in) doesn't support
those. It might be feasible to extend it to do so, though, but I don't
think I have time anytime soon, or interest.

I really would like to get some contributions from others, too, to
pspi... I wonder if anybody has ever downloaded the source and even
tried to figure out how it works. Anybody interested needs to have the
Adobe Photoshop SDK, though, and unfortunately Adobe no longer makes
it available for free download, I have been told. But surely there
must be hackers (in the original, positive, sense of the word) who
have downloaded the Photoshop SDK earlier, and perhaps tinkered with
it.

--tml