DITABIS file format plugin for Photoshop ---------------------------------------- Copyright 2003-7 Toby Thain Tested with: - Photoshop CS2 on PowerPC Macintosh (OS X) - Photoshop 5.5 & 7.0 on PowerPC Macintosh (OS X and Classic) - Photoshop 5.0 on Windows 98 - Photoshop 4.0 on 68K Macintosh (contact author for this version) The plugin adds the ability to Open DITABIS files of the following types: .IPL Image data first channel, 16 bit per pixel .IPH Image data second channel, 16 bit per pixel .IPR Reflected light data, 16 bit per pixel .IPC Image data, both channels combined, 16,24 or 36 Bit per Pixel The resultant image mode is 16-bit Grey Scale, with X and Y transposed from the input. Two passes are made on the image data, the first pass finds the maximum data value, and the second pass gives the data to Photoshop, scaling each input value so that the highest pixel value passed to Photoshop is white (maximum brightness). File Info (IPTC-NAA metadata) is constructed as follows: - Caption is set to the text following the COMMENT header (preceded by MAGNIFICATION line if its value is other than 1) - All other header fields are entered as Keywords. The plugin requires the following header fields: HEADER = Length of header (If HEADER is absent, 2048 is assumed.) YPIXEL = Number of pixel in Y XPIXEL = Number of pixel in X BYTE PER PIXEL = Data depth in byte, 2,3 or 4 Please contact the author with bug reports, comments or suggestions.