Ubuntu – ny image editing software that can open Microsoft DirectDraw Surface files in Ubuntu

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I need an editor that can open, save and edit Microsoft DirectDraw Surface (.dds) files. I know Paint.NET can open them, but well, it's .NET, so…

GIMP doesn't seem to open them and I can't find a plug-in that works.

Note, I've tried sudo apt-get install gimp-dds, I get this error: 

Opening '/home/_____/Desktop/explorer/InjectPack/OutDDS/176.dds' failed:
Procedure 'file-dds-load' returned no return values

I'll accept anything that works. Thanks!

Best Answer

The good news is that the command line application ImageMagick can read, write and edit DDS (Microsoft Direct Draw Surface) files. Test your own copy of ImageMagick as follows:

andrew@ilium~$ identify -list format | grep 'Microsoft DirectDraw Surface'
      DDS* rw+   Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
     DXT1* rw+   Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
     DXT5* rw+   Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
andrew@ilium~$

The codes after DDS,DXT1 and DXT5 signify:

* native blob support
r read support
w write support
+ support for multiple images

And certainly on my system ImageMagick's convert utility easily produced the required DDS files and successfully converted DDS files to other formats such as jpg and png...

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