Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 13:17:00 -0400 From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: jfieber@cs.smith.edu (John Fieber) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Photo CD utils? Message-ID: <199505251717.NAA10770@Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, May 25, 1995 09:37:11 -0400 References: <199505242032.QAA06429@Glock.COM> <199505251337.JAA15639@grendel.csc.smith.edu>
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On Thu, May 25, 1995 at 09:37:11 (-0400), John Fieber wrote:
> [NOTE: redirected from hackers to questions]
> matthew c. mead writes:
> > assume I can do the same with FreeBSD. Does anyone know of utilities for
> > unix to convert .pcd (Kodak PhotoCD format) files to things I can view?
> hpcdtoppm works like a charm. If you are interested, I have a
> couple patches at home that make it work on FreeBSD.
> Unfortunately, this is not something that should go in the ports
> collection because Kodak has threatened legal action against
> anyone producing or distributing software to use the photocd
> format without a license. hpcdtoppm was written without by
> examining actual photocd files, not with approval and
> documentation from Kodak. See "Encyclopedia of Graphic File
> Formats" by James D. Murry, published by O'Reilly & Associates
> ISBN 1-56592-058-9 for more information.
Thanks for all the help. I now have a nice little setup where I
stick in the Corel professional photos sampler cdrom and login and I get a
new pictures every 15 minutes on my desktop. :-)
-matt
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