Re: Picture conversion

[df@adelaide.dialix.com.au (David Francis)]

Edhel Iaur, Esq. (edhel@LOSETHECAPITALWORDSbigfoot.com) wrote:
: 
: FYI: Seattle Filmworks allows you to have your film developed & saved
: on a disk, as opposed to having physical 3" x 5" glossies, etc.  My
: friend converts from .SFW by using the included viewer, and using a
: 3rd party program to take a "snapshot" of the screen (like
: Apple-Shift-1 on a Mac, or Print Screen on a Windows puter).
: 

That's interesting. By 'included viewer' do you mean the software that's 
sent with the photo disk? Does he do this on a GS or some other computer. 
I can get a snapshot of the screen with the GS, but it's displaying the 
image that's the problem.

: 
: SFW: Seattle Filmworks Mangled JPEG files
: 
: Instead of either (1) using an existing, non-proprietary format, or
: (2) creating their own proprietary image format, Seattle
: FilmWorks chose to take an existing, non-proprietary format and mangle
: it to confuse most software. 
: --


Dave Francis
Adelaide, South Australia

df-AT-adelaide.dialix.oz.au