ADOBE PLUG-IN: SUPPORT FOR MIRAI FORMAT IMAGES

This plug-in adds support to various Adobe products (including Photoshop and Illustrator) for reading and writing Mirai format images (.mir and .tpx).

Note that this is not a Mirai plug-in, but an Adobe plug-in. It should be installed in the appropriate ***ADOBE*** product folder, as described below.


>>PLATFORMS

This plug-in is available for the Windows platform only (not for SGI or Macintosh). You must be running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000 to use this plug-in.


>>REQUIREMENTS

Photoshop 5.02 or higher is required. If you have Photoshop 5.0 installed you can update it to 5.02 by going to http://www.adobe.com/.


>>INSTALLING THE PLUG-IN

The download consists of a single plug-in file:

  Mirai.8bi

>With Adobe Photoshop

 1) Copy the file to the following location inside the Photoshop folder:

      \Plug-Ins\File Formats\

>With Adobe Illustrator

 1) Copy the file to the following location inside the Illustrator folder:

      \Plug-Ins\Photoshop Formats\

For other Adobe products, refer to the product documentation to determine if image format plug-ins are supported.


>>USING THE PLUG-IN

Once the plug-in has been installed, you can open .mir and .tpx images (Mirai's native image file format) in those applications. You can also save images to those formats. The plug-in supports grayscale and RGB color images, either 8 bits or 16 bits per channel.

The Mirai format supports an alpha channel only for RGB images. Therefore you will be able to save to the Mirai format only if you have one of the following types of images:

  - only single layer images

and

  - grayscale (no alpha channel)
  - RGB (no alpha channel)
  - RGBA (single alpha channel)

If the image is not in one of these formats, the option to save it to the Mirai format will not be available.

>With Adobe Photoshop:

The plug-in adds the Mirai image format (.mir and .tpx extensions) to the following commands:

   - [Open...] 
   - [Open As...]
   - [Save] 
   - [Save As...]
   - [Save a Copy...]

> With Adobe Illustrator:

The plug-in adds the Mirai image format (.mir and .tpx extensions) to the following commands:

   - [Open...] 
   - [Place...]
   - [Export...]

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