Michael,
I have been using Linux to read my Photo CDs, and I am very happy with the
results. I have been using three resources,
- hpcdtoppm: command line program that convers Photo-CD files to bitmap
and PostScript.
- xpcd: This is a graphic front end for hpcdtoppm, using XV to display
graphics.
- GIMP: I haven't really tried this out beyond confirming that it reads
the photo CDs.
When I installed the source distribution, I found that the included
executable did not work, asking for some weird library that I never heard
of. There was no problem compiling from source. As per the installation
instructions, I emailed the author to tell him how everything went, and he
replied to say `thank you!" Try getting Micro$oft to do that. Xpcd does
a nice job of proving a postage stamp display of your CDROM, but it does
not completely exploid hpcdtoppm. You should carefully read the man page,
and the `Examples' file included with the distribution. One thing I like
about it is being able to build the command into the Makefiles I use for
compiling LaTeX documents.
Howard Gibson
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Michael Stutz wrote:
> Thought I'd knock off four subjects with one post here...
>
> Been hanging out on Phil Greenspun's (totally excellent) photo.net lately,
> and it's got me kind of convinced to start archiving my photos with Kodak's
> PhotoCD. It's a proprietary format, which sucks, but I understand that Linux
> has support to read this -- anyone out there have much experience with this?
>
