[NTLUG:Discuss] Photo CDs

[Steve Baker]

Stuart Yarus wrote:
>
> 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.

Actually, I have found that some jpeg files cannot be read by XV - but
GIMP manages to read them OK...I guess that XV's jpeg reader is just a
little out of date.  Reading such images into GIMP and then just writing
them out again seems to fix them so that XV can then read them just fine.

I found this from some images created as texture maps in some Windoze
package or other....dunno whether it would ever be a problem with
Photo-CD JPEG images.
 
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