On 9/20/05, DJA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mom has a Kodak DX7430 digital camera. It uses an SD card to store > the images, plus it has a USB port. She has been getting prints of > images at the local grocery store, or CD's made through some other > retail expert, but she'd really like to print her own pictures. > > She runs FC2 - soon to be upgraded to FC4. Alas, the apps installed with > FC2 don't support that camera, and upgrading to newer versions is more > trouble than just upgrading the OS. In the mean time, I've been > experimenting with FC4 on my laptop as a proof of concept. > > I can read the SD card in FC4, see the directory, see the files and > their sizes. The problem is that none of the graphic apps in FC4, > including The GIMP can actually interpret the files which are reported > as being JPEG. I can copy a file from the flashdisk to the HD, but still > can not find an app that will show me the picture. The most informative > message I get is "Unknown file format". > > Has anyone experience with Kodak cameras and Linux? Is there something > special about how Kodak encodes their images? > > Or should I just switch my mom to Windows and be done with it.
i'm not sure where the problem is. what app/utility is "reporting" that they are jpegs? what does the command "file" report? have you tried imagemagick's command "display"? Best, Mike -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
