Gruppe Adler PAA GIMP Plugin

paa-gimp-plugin is a GIMP File Format Plugin for opening and saving Arma PAA images in GIMP. For more information on the Arma PAA file format check out the public PAA file format specification.

Installation

Requires GIMP Version 2.10.20 or higher

Windows

• Download the latest paa-gimp-plugin.exe from https://github.com/gruppe-adler/paa-gimp-plugin/releases.
• Move the paa-gimp-plugin.exe into C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\<GIMP version>\plug-ins.

Features

• Open, Open As menu commands can be used to read *.paa files.
• Export, Export 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 DXT1/DXT5 PAA Formats are currently supported.

Dependencies

• libgimp-2.0
• grad_aff

Building

For Windows using msys2/mingw-w64 is recommended.

• Build and install libgimp-2.0 and grad_aff
• git clone this repository
• Change into the project directory and run:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install