Converting downloaded PCD files.

[jo...@wexfordpress.com]

Some sites offer a 72dpi jpg and a hi res PCD of the same image. AFAIK
a PCD file has the same image in several densities. I want to extract
the highest density image. ImageMagick convert gets the lowest density
file. Nconvert doesn't seem to work. Are there any other
Linux-friendly converters out there for PCD files?

These are files I downloaded.

John Culleton

[Bill Marcum]

I'm not familiar with pcd files, but maybe they contain multiple images
like animated gifs do, and maybe you can tell imagemagick to convert the
nth image. Or you might try Gimp.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I've worked around graffix a lot, never heard of PCD though.

PSD or PCT, yes, but not PCD.

No sense in having an image at 'several densities' since you need the
whole file anyway.

Oh. Google says its a proprietary Kodak format - you need Photoshop and
a plugin.

Only saw proprietary converters on googling.

Amber cheap enough, but windows.

Oh

"PCD: Photo CD, from Kodak, uses this format. It includes several
resolutions within one file (so files tend to be very large) and is non
lossy. It usually requires special reading software. You'll need to
convert a PCD to some other format (specifying which resolution you
want) before you work on it. On Linux, a program called pcdtoppm can do
that, or there's a PCD gimp plugin."

Why am I doing your googling for you?

[wexfordpress]

On Apr 25, 5:03 pm, The Natural Philosopher <t...@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
> Bill Marcum wrote:

I eventually worked it out with Imagemagick:
convert FOO.PCD[5] -colormodel rgb foo.jpg

but I will try the pcdtoppm. Thanks for helping.
John C.