Ultima 7 .shp format Photoshop plugin
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To build:
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(Note: the binaries are already supplied, so you skip this step if you want)


place the source in the directory
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop 6.0 SDK\Projects\U7ShpFormat
(replace the SDK directory with the appropriate directory on your system)

Open the U7ShpFormat.dsw file in Microsoft Visual C++ 5 (or higher)

Select the 'U7ShpFormat - Win32 release' configuration & build it.
This will produce the U7Shape.8bi plugin

Select the 'splitshp - Win32 release' configuration & build it.
This will produce the splitshp.exe tool

To install:
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Place U7Shape.8bi in Plug-Ins/File Formats behind your Photoshop directory.
You should now be able to open and save .shp files in Photoshop.


Note:

Because of the limitations of Photoshop, you can only open shape files with
one image (frame) in them. You can convert shape files with multiple frames
to single-frame shape files (and the other way) with the 'splitshp.exe' tool.

To split shape.shp into shape_00.shp, shape_01.shp, etc...
splitshp shape.shp

To recombine the resulting .shp files back into shape.shp:
splitshp shape.shp shape_00.shp shape_01.shp ....
