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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: New version of pCD (Photo CD Reader) available
- Message-ID: <hn-3k4+@rpi.edu>
- Keywords: Photo_CD Photos pCD.app
- Nntp-Posting-Host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:47:36 GMT
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- Just before Christmas, Dick Phillips (rlp@lanl.gov) released a program
- called pCD for reading Photo CD's on the NeXT. Just after New Year's,
- I finally got the NeXT CD-ROM reader which I've been waiting for since
- it was ordered in August.
-
- I had a few vacation days coming to me, so I used them to work on pCD.
- While this has been an excellent project for me to work on (I certainly
- know a lot more about NeXT programming than I did on Dec 25th), I have
- to get back to my real job for awhile.
-
- I do believe my changes are significant enough that anyone interested in
- the program would be better off with this version. Thus, even though I
- have a lot of ideas for things to change in the program, I'm making this
- version available via anonymous FTP. I haven't tried to put it on
- sonata or cs.orst.edu due to usenet articles which seem to imply that
- they are out of disk space. The fact that I thought I'd be home and
- asleep over 4 hours ago probably has something to do with it, too.
-
- Anyway, it is available via anonymous FTP from:
- host: eclipse.its.rpi.edu [ IP= 128.113.24.91 ]
- directory: NeXT
- files: pCD0.2.README
- pCD0.2.compressed
-
- I have a number of ideas for further improvements, and I'd be interested
- in any other ideas that people have. I make zero promises that I'll ever
- *do* any of those things, but I'm interested in knowing about them... :-)
-
- ---
- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
-
- ---
- excerpt from pCD0.2.README
-
- I'm calling Dick Phillips' version "0.1". I have made quite a few changes
- to it and am calling this version 0.2. More options are implemented, some
- bugs are fixed, and the code is structured differently in many parts. I'm
- hoping that everything about the result is pretty obvious, as I haven't
- written any help for it yet...
-
- The one feature that isn't obvious is that you can get a "face-tiff-sized"
- selection rectangle by holding down the option key before click-dragging
- in an image window. This feature may move to a different key combination
- in future versions, as I'm not sure it's correct from the standpoint of
- NeXT User Interface Guidelines.
-
- This now supports opening all the image sizes, although the preference
- panel does not allow you to select the largest size. You can try that
- size if you want, but it requires HUGE amounts of VM. The first time I
- opened an image at the largest size, my swapfile grew to over 70meg by
- the time the picture was open. That left me with all of about 180K
- if disk space free on my hard disk (yes, *K*, not meg). This was much
- too close for comfort, so I disabled the option.
-
- Source code is included, as is a compiled version of the resulting
- program. This program will only work on NeXTSTEP Release 3.0 or better.
- I hope people find this interim release useful, even though there are
- many many things that I'd like to do to improve this some more. I doubt
- I'll have time to do any of those things anytime soon though, so I
- decided I'd make this version available as it is.
-
- - Garance / Jan 12th, 1993
-