Igor, the last time I gave out CDs (it were actually DVDs) was gazillion years ago. It wasn't even the 6th grade of my older daughter, while she's finishing 10th grade now.
I have started with DropBox account where I would put 20x30 cm printables and share the link to the folder of each event via e-mail. The problem with DropBox was that it had too small a size, so I went down the Google route. Nowadays, I'm uploading 20x30 cm printables to Google Drive (15 GB free out of the box, so to say, no pun here) and sharing the links from my cell phone to the WhatsApp group. This is for my younger daughter who's now finishing 3rd grade in school. This really works like a charm. I remember having most annoying problem with the DVDs/CDs - each parent wants specific sub-set of photos, where their own kid shows. So, I've spent lots of time doing all kinds of stuff. Say, there were few parents who asked me to please give them photos of just their kid for bat-mitzvah/bar-mitzvah albums. I obliged, but it was laborious. With things such as DropBox or Google Drive - each one just gets to easily page through all the pics and download whatever they want - no involvement from me. Boris On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > Hi All! > > The end of the school year is a busy time... I've been a bit swamped, but I > have an urgent and important question for which I hope some PDMLers might > have some good suggestions. > > My kid's school teacher asked to put together photos (mine and teachers') so > that they will given on a CD to each kid in the class. > (I've been taking a lot of photos at various school events throughout the > year.) > So, I am thinking how to structure that CD. So, all your practical > suggestions are welcome. > > Here is the way I am thinking about it right now: > 1. The simplest thing would be just to have a bunch of folders that are > titled as date+event name. > > Since it should be easy for the end-users (parents, and not all of them a > computer-comfortable or even computer-literate), I am thinking if it would > be better to build also simple HTML galleries (in addition to just photos). > Personally, as a customer, I'd prefer just a simple set of folders with > JPEGs to be viewed by a "standard" (or customer-installed) photo viewer, but > I am a bit more computer-literate... What do you think? > > 2. I can set "autorun.inf" for Windows to start something... (e.g. the main > index.htm file if I were to create web-galleries) > While there are ways to do the same for Mac, e.g. by following this > scenario: > http://jordan.broughs.net/archives/2008/03/creating-cross-platform-windows-and-mac-installer-cds > I don't have an easy access to a Mac, so, it is not an option for me... > So, most likely, even if I were to do that for Windows, nothing special will > be done for a Mac. > > > 3. From what I understand, starting from OS-X, a joliet-format CD is not a > problem for a Mac anymore (i.e. I don't need to worry about building a > "hybrid"-format CD). > But I wonder, with a modern Mac, what happens when you insert a CD with a > set of folders containing JPEGs into a Mac: will it offer to open a photo > viewer (if nothing is configured to happen as discussed in #2 above)? > > 4. I assume some of you may have provided your customers with a CD of > photographs. What type of format did you do in that case? Anything beyond > just a simple set of JPEGs? > > Thank you, > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
