I have tried Irfanview and the same problem exists with that program as exists in using my present one. I am unable to move through the many records easily. The present software that comes with WinXP will allow me to bring up the various records but moving through the records is not easy. Thanks for the input!! md-baltimorecity-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. ARCHIVAL CD'S (Frank J. Kuhn) 2. Re: ARCHIVAL CD'S (T.M. Sommers) 3. Re: ARCHIVAL CD'S (Rose) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:00:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Frank J. Kuhn" Subject: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] ARCHIVAL CD'S To: MD-BALTIMORECITY@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <525296.9827.qm@web35611.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have been a member of the list for a few years now but have never seen a particular issue discussed, so here goes. Several years ago, I purchased approximately 16 rolls of microfilm from the State Archives in Annapolis and have gotten loads of information from them. As you all know by now, such purchases can no longer be made. Instead, we are offered CD's of those records at about $40.00 per CD. Since hauling CD's to a local library to view them is a bother, I decided to find a company who would convert those microfilm records to CD's which would then allow me to view them on my computer. I first searched on line to find such a company and was not encouraged by the prices to do so. Luckily, I found a small company in the Baltimore area who agreed to do the conversion for a reasonable price. After converting about five of the microfilm rolls to CD's, they told me that the remaining rolls could not be done since their contents were not unifomly arranged. Although I accepted the excuse, I still believe that they had quoted a price that was not profitable and wished to end the arrangement. I never did find another company to do the remaining rolls at an acceptable price. As for the five rolls that were put on CD, they were excellent and saved many trips to the libraries nearby. At the time that I viewed these CD's, my computer's OS was Win 98 part of whose package was Kodal Imaging. I have since gone to a new computer running Win XP which does not have Kodak Imaging as part of it's system. Result----I can no longer view the CD's. Has anyone else tried to do this type of conversion? If so, can you recommend a company that would do it? The conversion was made in tif format. Would another format help? Help, help, help!! Frank Kuhn Frank Kuhn flask100@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:47:32 -0500 From: "T.M. Sommers" Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] ARCHIVAL CD'S To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <460D3114.5090102@nj.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Frank J. Kuhn wrote: > > As for the five rolls that were put on CD, they were excellent > and saved many trips to the libraries nearby. At the time > that I viewed these CD's, my computer's OS was Win 98 part of > whose package was Kodal Imaging. I have since gone to a new > computer running Win XP which does not have Kodak Imaging as > part of it's system. Result----I can no longer view the CD's. > > Has anyone else tried to do this type of conversion? If so, > can you recommend a company that would do it? The conversion > was made in tif format. Would another format help? Any half-way decent graphics program should be able to view TIFF files, if that is all that is stopping you from viewing them. -- Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:35:16 -0400 From: "Rose" Subject: Re: [MD-BALTIMORECITY] ARCHIVAL CD'S To: md-baltimorecity@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <200703302035.l2UKZKbf021940@mail.bcpl.net> Frank, Tom is correct; virtually any current graphics program will view TIF files. If you can see the filenames on the CDs, you can also Google for the extensions to find out what programs will read them. A free one that is very popular is Irfanview, but Google will find you dozens more. It even converts many file formats, if that is what you want to do. One of the purchased programs that I have used to convert file formats is ACDSee. I have an older version that converts just about everything. It's in the moderate price range, but you will no doubt find similar programs at every price level through your search. Good luck with working this out. I sure wish I had bought more films before the MSA stopped selling them. Rose > Has anyone else tried to do this type of conversion? If so, can you > recommend a company that would do it? The conversion was made in tif > format. Would another format help? > > Help, help, help!! > > Frank Kuhn ------------------------------ To contact the MD-BALTIMORECITY list administrator, send an email to MD-BALTIMORECITY-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the MD-BALTIMORECITY mailing list, send an email to MD-BALTIMORECITY@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MD-BALTIMORECITY-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of MD-BALTIMORECITY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 76 *********************************************** Frank Kuhn flask100@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! 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