I needed to muck with some PCX images. Searching the forum showed some other interest (http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=334), so I buckled down and wrote a plug-in for it. As I said over yonder (before Rick showed me the error of my ways):
I've tested it on various sample images I could find online, but haven't used it thoroughly in content production cycles. Let's call this an early alpha. If anyone is interested in trying it out, e-mail me at inexorabletash@hotmail.com. After at least a few reports of it working I'll put the binary up somewhere for download. UPDATE: I've had enough positive feedback that I'll go ahead and post a direct download link: http://www.calormen.com/tmp/PcxFileType.zip Please let me know if you have any problems with it. UPDATE: A user kindly reported that the plug-in seemed to bloat the sizes of files on save (e.g. load a 16k image, save it at 300k). I investigated and it turned out that my code had a flaw such that compression would never occur. Oops. (Serves me right for wanting more of a file loader than a file saver.) I've updated the code to version 0.9.2.0, which is available for download at the above URL. Sorry for any inconvenience! UPDATE (2007-10-20): The plug-in is provided AS-IS, and is free for commercial and non-commercial use, and may be freely distributed. UPDATE (2007-10-22): Updated to 0.9.3.0. Now conforms to PDN 3.10 plug-in API so may require an update. Now forces monochrome (1-bit) images to black/white palette.
UPDATE (2014-06-24): Updated to 0.9.4.0. Now works with PDN 4.0, so far as I can tell. Same download link as the above.
UPDATE (2015-01-09):
I may have mucked up the last ZIP. Anyway, rebuilt with .NET 4.5 requirement, republished. Otherwise, no changes.