[NTLUG:Discuss] Photo CDs

[Stuart Yarus]

Greg,

We have been getting Kodak processing on our non-Advantex stuff.  We
atarted getting jpeg files on a floppy.  Like someone else posted, we got
24 images per 1.44M floppy.  The images were of acceptable resolution.
Then we etarted getting a CD instead of a floppy.  The jpeg files are
generally around 500K each, and quite nice resolution - around 1500x1200,
usually.

I use KDE.  I started using the viewer that comes with KDE and it works
fine. But it doesn't appear to have a command line interface - I haven't
looked at the source code yet.  But xv works great, and of course has a
command line interface!  (The latest version appears to be 3.10a, last
updated in 1994.)

We didn't get a choice of format, so jpeg is a great result.

They include some Windoze software on the media, but I haven't tried it.  I
assume GIMP would have no trouble with what we got.

Happy New Year!

At 11:16 AM 12/28/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Has anyone played with Photo CDs using Linux?  What format (jpeg) do these
>come in?  I'd like to start getting all those tons of negatives converted
>but I can't find any info on the format the photo files come in.  I
>checked out the Kodak site and they don't give any real information beyond
>needing Windows to run their software.  I assume the actual files are a
>standard image format that GIMP (for example) can read.
>
>-- 
>Greg Edwards
>New Age Software, Inc.
>http://www.nas-inet.com
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Stuart Yarus

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