Bug 295375

Summary:	PCD Kodak Photo CD format not supported in all versions
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Patrick Op de Beeck <patrick.opdebeeck>
Component:	kimgio	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	caulier.gilles
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	pcd file 'info' Options files startup file

Description Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-05 17:29:18 UTC

The Kodak CD format is one of the first digital storage format available for Photographers. Many people stil use it because a lot of photo's are stored in this format promoted by the KODAK company for professional use and longterm storage. As such many hobbyist also used this format when they sent their analog films in for development and digitalisation.
Nowadays I cannot find any program anymore who reads the format and makes the picture visible.
It would be nice if digikam can read it and store it away in another format with all stored information contained in the PCD format.
Either as a plug-in or standard feature.

Comment 1 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-05 17:40:23 UTC

Created attachment 69303 [details]
pcd file 'info'

info file

Comment 2 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-05 17:42:57 UTC

Created attachment 69304 [details]
Options files

options file  all in the root directory of the CD

Comment 3 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-05 17:44:57 UTC

Created attachment 69305 [details]
startup file

startup file on the root directory of the CD
(CD is in readable iso format but the PCD files aren't displayable.

Comment 4 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-05 17:49:18 UTC

since you cannot recieve files > 1000MB i cannot send an exampleof a photo.

Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2012-03-05 21:03:51 UTC

PCD support is delegate to KDE Image IO...

Note : ImageMagick has PCD support as image loader...

Gilles Caulier

Comment 6 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-06 14:42:31 UTC

 ImageMagick isn't delivered in the (K)Ubuntu tree anymore.

Patrick

2012/3/5 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com>

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295375
>
> --- Comment #5 from Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> ---
> PCD support is delegate to KDE Image IO...
>
> Note : ImageMagick has PCD support as image loader...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
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> You are receiving this mail because:
> You reported the bug.
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Comment 7 caulier.gilles 2012-03-06 14:46:23 UTC

Look to graphicsmagick as alternative to IM :

http://www.graphicsmagick.org/

Gilles Caulier

Comment 8 Patrick Op de Beeck 2012-03-06 15:18:45 UTC

I found no installable binary for Linux,  only rpm sourcecode -if it was
for Linux and not for M$..
All the binaries were for M$ O.S. :-(
So in my opinion there is no support anymore in GNU/Linux.  We have to
fallback to M$ programs to get something an average user can use/install.

Probably you find the source code in imagemagic and you have only to make a
module of it and include it in digikam.
Myself I working only with GNU/Linux. And I prefer it this way. So the
suggestion is more actual/urgent than I ever thought.

Since KODAK is almost gone (broke/faillissement) there wouldn't be any
license issues -if they were ever necessary.-
thanks for the links.

Patrick


2012/3/6 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com>

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295375
>
> --- Comment #7 from Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles@gmail.com> ---
> Look to graphicsmagick as alternative to IM :
>
> http://www.graphicsmagick.org/
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
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> You are receiving this mail because:
> You reported the bug.
>

Comment 9 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:17:31 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann