Well, this missed the last feature freeze all those months ago, so I thought I should make a real effort this time. This adds a facility to the Import feature of the palette editor, so that you can get the colormap from an INDEXED image directly into the Gimp palette system. HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM Palette/Edit/Import/Image ? This feature uses the actual colormap of the indexed image, rather than processing the image, and extracting colors from the frequency data HOW IS THIS DIFFERENT FROM Image/Save Palette PLUG-IN ? Functionally it's much the same, but this is a core feature (where it belongs IMHO) and works without the user clicking "Refresh", plus it's right next to all the other Palette Import features. WHY DO I WANT THIS ANYWAY ? Some applications (notably games) use a fixed palette, and throw away the palette data when loading images. To create images for these applications in Gimp you need to import a palette from an existing image and then convert future images to that palette. NOW WHAT ? Please will Yosh (or someone else with CVS access) commit the attached patch to Gimp CVS and REMOVE my old plug-in, which was only ever a stop-gap measure. The old plug-in is plug-ins/common/palette.c Nick.
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Description: Palette import patch
