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Welcome to KODAK Photo CD Access Software!
This file contains an overview, feature description, installation
instructions, configuration, and operation recommendations.
This floppy diskette contains the same executable software
for reading, editing, and exporting images as contained on the
Photo CD disc. However, the current version of Apple Computer's
Foreign File Access utility does not support viewing, loading or
running the software from the CD disc. Apple Computer, Inc
is working to provide a version of Foreign File Access that
supports executable elements stored on the same discs as images,
and expects to provide this to users later this year.
As an interim measure, Kodak is providing Photo CD Access Software on
this floppy diskette. You can follow the installation procedure below to load
the software and then enjoy the images stored on the Photo CD Sampler,
as well as other Photo CD discs.
OVERVIEW
KODAK Photo CD Access Software provides a familiar, menu-driven interface
that allows near photographic-quality images stored on Photo CD discs
bearing the Photo CD symbol to be displayed, manipulated, and exported
to existing software applications. You will find many ways in which to
use the photographs. You can use them in
* Word processing and desktop publishing software
* Painting, drawing, graphics, and presentation packages
* Database and development tools
* Other applications that support bit-mapped color,
bitonal, or gray-scale images
In addition to the Photo CD disc included with Photo CD Access Software,
you can take your negatives or film to a photofinishing service and have
your own photographs placed on new Photo CD discs. Each new disc has the
capacity to hold 100 or more images.
On-line Help describes all Photo CD Access Software operations in detail.
FEATURES
Photo CD Access Software lets you
* Load photographic images stored on a Photo CD disc
* View the stored photos on a contact sheet
* Select and display a single photo or a set of photos
* Edit a displayed photo by cropping, changing the size
(resolution), color settings, and orientation
* Copy an original or edited photo to the Clipboard
* Export an original or edited photo to a file in one of the
following formats:
.PICT .EPS .TIFF
INSTALLING PHOTO CD ACCESS SOFTWARE
Photo CD Access Software requires System 6.0.5, System 7.0 or later with 32-bit QuickDraw.
Minimum Configuration Recommended Configuration
Macintosh LC Macintosh II or higher
4+ MB RAM 8+ MB RAM
4+ MB hard drive free disk space 8+ MB hard drive free disk space
8-bit color card;compatible monitor 24-bit color card; compatible monitor
CD-ROM XA drive Mode 2 CD-ROM XA drive Mode 2
Using the Finder to install
1. Insert the Photo CD Access Software floppy disk
into the diskette drive.
2. Copy the ACCESS folder to your hard drive by selecting it,
and dragging it over to your hard disk.
2. Double-click the ACCESS folder on your hard drive.
3. Double-click the Photo CD Access Software application PCDView.
You can also run Photo CD Access Software application PCDView
from the floppy diskette.
CONFIGURING YOUR MACHINE FOR OPTIMAL USE OF MEMORY
Photo CD Access Software works with very large images.
If your machine contains a lot of RAM, you can increase the
application size by single clicking on the Access Software
application icon (PCDVIEW), and then use the File Menu and
select Get Info. At the bottom of this dialog box, you will see
a Suggested size, and and Current size. Give the Current size
as much as you can.
To optimize your system to work with large images, you will
also need to use disk caching. To enable disk caching with
Photo CD Access Software:
1. Double-click the Photo CD Access Software application (PCDVIEW).
2. Use the File menu and choose Preferences.
3. Make sure that Disk Caching is turned On (it is by default).
4. Increase the number in the Maximum size box in the Image Cache
section of the Preferences dialog box. If you have another hard disk
that has more free space available than is showing, change to that
disk. See Operating Recommendations, below, for image size requirements.
5. Click OK to close the Preferences dialog box.
6. Use the File menu and choose Quit. You must exit Photo CD Access
Software in order for the changes made to disk caching to take
effect. When you restart Photo CD Access Software, the new settings
take effect and become the default.
OPERATING RECOMMENDATIONS
The best way to use Photo CD Access Software, particularly if your
system memory is at the lower end of the recommended range, is to work
with smaller image sizes (wallet and snapshot) on your display. You
can still export images at any size, since exporting does not make
heavy demands on memory, only on available disk storage space.
Photo CD discs store images at 5 different resolutions. In order to
display images, your system must have available a combination of RAM
and disk caching larger than the size of the images. The following list
shows the five supported resolutions and the approximate amount of
memory required to display each size.
Resolution Approximate Size
Wallet 2.5 MB
Snapshot 3.0 MB
Standard 7.5 MB
Large 15 MB
Poster 30 MB
A contact sheet can take up to 4+ MB of memory to display if the
Photo CD disc contains the maximum number of images. To save space,
you may load an image without first loading the contact sheet.
KNOWN PROBLEMS
--TIFF images in portrait mode take much longer to export than the same image exported
as PICT.
--When you start to get into low-memory situations, you may observe performance problems.
This may by corrected by allocating more RAM to the application and increasing the disk cache.
--Occasionally you may need to quit PCDVIEW, and then restart, to regain any lost memory.