Free .PCX Editor?

[god_money]

Hola Friends,
I've searched the net far and wide for a free .pcx editor, so as to create/update the old Zulu one I've used for several years, but to no avail.
Does anyone know of one out there?

All I've got to work with is Windows ME version of Paint.... rather useless, no?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Your friendly neighborhood

 

[Virote_Considon]

This seems to be the most widely used around here

 

[god_money]

I've tried this before, but Gimp does not appear to be compatible with Windows ME.

 

[utahjazz7]

http://www.oldapps.com/Paint_Shop_Pro.php

Here you can download a shareware version of PaintShop Pro 3.0. It's old, but it should do the trick. I use it for all of my Civ3 stuff requiring palette work.

 

[god_money]

Excellent!

Thank you Utah!!!

 

[vLabz]

There is an easy and free way to edit pcx files under Windows
with Paint.NET

there is now a plugin for handling PCX files
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/2135-pcx-plug-in/


I'm using it for Alpha Centauri, just make sure to check the "use original palette" when you save a file. Worked like a charm.

 

[Quintillus]

I've tried this before, but Gimp does not appear to be compatible with Windows ME.

It looks like there's an old version (2.2) that works with ME (scroll down a bit/search for 98 to find it), in case you should ever need it in the future. I'm not sure quite what the differences are, but it'll probably still work... I use 2.4 instead of the latest myself, simply because I'm more familiar with its layout.

 

[vLabz]

I've tried this before, but Gimp does not appear to be compatible with Windows ME.

No way, I just CAN'T believe you're using Windows ME, it's too old now. Hope you changed your OS now we're in 2013.

That said, I find Paint.NET much easier than Gimp. Never liked Gimp!
(although I respect people working with it and people who made it)

 

[Ogedei_the_Mad]

No way, I just CAN'T believe you're using Windows ME, it's too old now. Hope you changed your OS now we're in 2013.

Probably because the original post was 2009 and you've just revived a 4-year old dead thread.

 

[vLabz]

Probably because the original post was 2009 and you've just revived a 4-year old dead thread.

yeah, at least, I hope so... because even in 2009, Windows ME was already very old, Vista was already there, 7 was about to be released, and XP was the king then...

I've revived the thread because I was looking for a free pcx editor, and easy to install and use, no big install, no big download, no eval version. No one talked about Paint.NET because the plugin seems not to be well known. I felt I just had to share

 

[Quintillus]

vLabz, is there a way to edit the palette of a PCX easily in Paint.Net? I've added this plugin to it, and it is kind of nice - much faster to start up than GIMP, and I agree that GIMP is not the champion of ease-of-use. But I know many PCX creators will be changing the palette from time to time.

Even without that, I might set Paint.NET as my default .pcx viewer now since I rarely actually change a file, and staring at the GIMP startup screen isn't much fun. So I agree that there's some use to the bump, even if I did get fooled into looking up old versions of GIMP thinking the thread was new.

 

[vLabz]

Hi Quintillus, not that I know: I don't know any way to edit the palette.

I would look for other plugins to edit the palette but I fear there isn't. I've read that Paint.NET computes the palette (if any) at save time.


Fortunately, there is a "use original palette" option in the PCX plugin : for alpha centauri, I just need to integrate with the original palette so I paste my work in the original file and check the "use the original palette" option. My colours are "downgraded" to the original palette when I save only.

If you really need to edit the palette I would use another program.