On-Topic digital camera (was Re: Camera's are off topic!)

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Wed Apr 21 20:02:51 2004

> download from Apple's support website. You can't even view the
> pictures in their native format unless you've loaded the camera software;
> they are PICTs, but the data segment of the PICT file is compressed
> in a non-standard way, meaning that even Linux tools that know what
> a PICT is can only describe the contents of the picture file from a
> structural standpoint. Makes automating certain operations impossible.
>
> -ethan

You've just "got" to love some of those old Apple file formats :^( One of
my chief reasons for buying my first Mac in 1995 was to run ClarisDraw.
Guess when the last version of ClarisDraw was released. Granted I'm still
able to run my copy on my G5 2x2 running Mac OS X 10.3.3, but it's the
*only* thing that can read all my files :^(

On an interesting/scarry note, I can now print to PDF, and then use the PDF
file in Adobe Indesign (my DTP software). So I'm actually better off than
I used to be!

I'd really like to upgrade to a newer program with a more open file format,
but I've yet to find anything that does what I need as well.

                Zane
Received on Wed Apr 21 2004 - 20:02:51 BST