[NTLUG:Discuss] Photo CDs

[Stuart Yarus]

At 02:38 AM 1/1/00 -0600, you wrote:
>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little out of date.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.

Hmmm.  Perhaps the Windoze package doesn't follow the JPEG format, and GIMP
knows how to compensate?  On the other hand, being six years old could be a
problem for xv.

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