Message-Id: <mailto:199409191139.GAA06652@library.wustl.edu> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 17:30:14 -0700 From: "Edward W. Earle, California Museum of Photography, UC/Riverside, Subject: Re: Public-domain browser for Photo CD To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Photo CD, like most graphic applications, works very well on Apple Macintosh. There are many public domain or shareware programs to view Photo CD files. There are also many tools at the system level that allow you to view most images including Kodak Photo CD.On the system level you can just drag and drop a Photo CD image icon to Apple's "Simple Text" program. This program will open the CD image, using QuickTime to decompress the file. Additionally, a Kodak Photo CD comes with a "slide viewing" program to view images by number sequence. Picture compressor, another free Apple program is very useful for basic image viewing and saving in compressed form.
A particularly good "postcard ware" viewing program is JPEGview by Aaron Giles. Now in version 3.2.1, this is the defacto viewing program for World Wide Web images (Mosaic) and Gopher retrievals. It decompresses Photo CD images and can view GIF, PICT, JPEG and JFIF. It is called postcard ware since Giles requests only a bit of interesting mail if you use the program. I don't think one can find a better deal nor a computer programmer with a better spirit of sharing his intellectual wealth.