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In comp.sys.mac.misc Gary Hendricks <> wrote:
: Nope. Nothing special you need to do. Just burn the JPEG images on a
: CD and you can view em on either a Mac or PC (preferably with Mac OS
: 10+ and Windows XP).

Actually you can view them on all sorts of other platforms as well,
e.g. unix boxen.

In article <mcmurtri->,
Kevin McMurtrie <> wrote:

> OS X has succumbed to the use of clumsy file extensions so you don't
> need to worry about the filenames.

Thank God. Now the Mac is compatible with the rest of the world!

Mike

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:19:38 -0600, "F. Hayek"
<> wrote:

>In article <mcmurtri->,
> Kevin McMurtrie <> wrote:
>
>> In article <freeagentREMOVE->,
>> "F. Hayek" <> wrote:
>>
>> > My computer is a macintosh G4 running OS 10.2 with a CD burner. I want
>> > to transfer some image files to CD so I can run them down to the local
>> > Walgreens for photo quality prints. Do I just burn JPEG images onto the
>> > CD or is there some type of format I have to use so that the PC at
>> > Walgreens will recognize them? -- Fred
>>
>> The basic format of a CD is standardized. OS-specific information, used
>> by both MacOS and Windows, is an extension to the format that can be
>> ignored when reading the disc.
>>
>> OS X has succumbed to the use of clumsy file extensions so you don't
>> need to worry about the filenames.
>
>
>Thanks to all for the helpful responses.
>
>I burned one .jpg file onto a CD-R, as a test, and learned that once you
>burn anything onto a CD-R it's finished. Big waste of that disk <LOL>!

Not true. Until you "close" the disk, you can write more data to the
unburned portion.

F. Hayek wrote:

> My computer is a macintosh G4 running OS 10.2 with a CD burner. I want
> to transfer some image files to CD so I can run them down to the local
> Walgreens for photo quality prints. Do I just burn JPEG images onto the
> CD or is there some type of format I have to use so that the PC at
> Walgreens will recognize them? -- Fred

Just make sure your burner software (Toast? other?) is set to burn as
ISO-9660, which is the CD-ROM "standard" format, rather than Mac format.
Keep in mind that filenames are limited to 8+3 DOS format unless you
use Joliet extensions (which MAY limit compatibility to newer Windows
systems).

"secheese" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 10:19:38 -0600, "F. Hayek"

(snip)
>
> Not true. Until you "close" the disk, you can write more data to the
> unburned portion.
>
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True, and to do this it is best to use proper burning software (such as
NERO) burning as a multi-session until you choose to finalise / close the
disk when it then becomes fixed and no more can be added.

ISO9660 multi-session tracks will open on either Win or Mac platforms even
if the disk is not finalised / closed.

Journalist

"F. Hayek" <> wrote in message news:<freeagentREMOVE->...
[snip]
>
> I burned one .jpg file onto a CD-R, as a test, and learned that once you
> burn anything onto a CD-R it's finished. Big waste of that disk <LOL>!
> -- Fred

If you're burning jpegs to a CD for archival purposes, by all means
use a CD-R. But if you're only transferring images to a CD so you can
take it to your local store to get prints made, just use a rewritable
CD.

It's true that blank cds don't cost that much in the first place, but
this just saves having to waste blanks when one RW disc is really all
you need.

"Michael A. Covington" <> writes:

>Surprise surprise - CDs are standardized. PC and Mac CDs are the same.

Well, yes and no. If you burn an ISO 9660-format CD with only data
files on it, everything ought to be able to read it. And that's all you
need for taking images to a photo store.

But there is (or at least used to be) a Mac-specific CD format that
allowed a Mac-style filesystem on the disc, complete with executables
containing resource and data forks, 4-letter codes for each file, etc.
If you wanted to sell an *application* that worked for both Mac and PC,
you'd build a special disc containing a Mac filesystem and a standard
ISO one in different areas on the disk.

I don't know if OS X still does something like this; I left the Mac
world some time ago.

Dave

Journalist-North wrote:


> True, and to do this it is best to use proper burning software (such as
> NERO) burning as a multi-session until you choose to finalise / close
> the disk when it then becomes fixed and no more can be added.

The OP was working on a Mac; there is no version of Nero for MacOS.

> ISO9660 multi-session tracks will open on either Win or Mac platforms
> even if the disk is not finalised / closed.
>
> Journalist

"Matt Ion" <> wrote in message
news:c8Ymd.257112$%k.234527@pd7tw2no...
> Journalist-North wrote:
>
>
>> True, and to do this it is best to use proper burning software (such as
>> NERO) burning as a multi-session until you choose to finalise / close the
>> disk when it then becomes fixed and no more can be added.
>
> The OP was working on a Mac; there is no version of Nero for MacOS.

Understood... but there are, ISTR, other burner options for Mac. I work on
both platforms - Win on my own office systems and Mac in the newsroom so am
used to cross-platforming all kinds of "stuff" and across several different
applications. If it were up to me I would shove the Macs to the floor [or
just put a hammer through them and get it over with] and get in competent
Win / PC systems throughout.

Was on an outside assignment last week with three Mac systems of different
vintages... the techies networked them together and left... fifteen minutes
later the whole thing when to s**t. The Macs are a right pain in the butt!

>> Journalist

In article <SD4nd.2042$>,
"Journalist-North" <journalist-> wrote:

> "Matt Ion" <> wrote in message
> news:c8Ymd.257112$%k.234527@pd7tw2no...
> > Journalist-North wrote:
> >
> >
> >> True, and to do this it is best to use proper burning software (such as
> >> NERO) burning as a multi-session until you choose to finalise / close the
> >> disk when it then becomes fixed and no more can be added.
> >
> > The OP was working on a Mac; there is no version of Nero for MacOS.
>
> Understood... but there are, ISTR, other burner options for Mac. I work on
> both platforms - Win on my own office systems and Mac in the newsroom so am
> used to cross-platforming all kinds of "stuff" and across several different
> applications. If it were up to me I would shove the Macs to the floor [or
> just put a hammer through them and get it over with] and get in competent
> Win / PC systems throughout.
>
> Was on an outside assignment last week with three Mac systems of different
> vintages... the techies networked them together and left... fifteen minutes
> later the whole thing when to s**t. The Macs are a right pain in the butt!

Sounds like the "techies" weren't. Anything can be a pain in the butt if
it's not configured correctly. There's no reason for a properly set up
network to behave like that regardless of what systems are
participating. We've got one Mac in the office that we brought in for a
particular task that we couldn't reasonably accomplish with another
platform, and I don't think we've had, or needed to have, a support
visit on it in years.

G

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