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Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Rubydog on July 07, 2003, 10:51:12 PM
Hello,

This is my first post.  Bernie sent me from the everymac forum!
 
I have a huge collection of iphoto images.  I would like to burn a cd full to give to family, etc.  I burned a disk from iphoto and had a local friend test drive it in his windows machine.  No go.  So I plucked individual jpegs from the iphoto pictures folder and burned them from the finder.  Still nothing.  Is there another approach?  Or should it have worked and there is something more my pc friend could have done?  
 
Thanks, Steve
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Bernie on July 07, 2003, 10:55:09 PM
Hi, Glad your here. You soon get all the help you need  here at TS. Thanks for coming. Yes! Helps on the way.  You'll see  thumbup.gif
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: kps on July 08, 2003, 12:16:01 AM
I'm pretty certain that the CD must be burned as ISO9660 to be cross-platform, otherwise it's formated for Mac only.

The Mac OS's built in burning software doesn't have the ability to format the CD as ISO9660(x-platform)...your option is to get TOAST, which can.
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: jepinto on July 08, 2003, 05:18:29 AM
welcome.gif Rubydog
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Bill on July 08, 2003, 09:38:52 AM
What kps said: ISO 9660 format with "toast".
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: kelly on July 08, 2003, 11:03:48 AM
Hello Steve. Welcome to the Forum. smile.gif

Besides Toast, I found this tip that may work.

Burning CDs for users without iPhoto

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?sto...030326001246351
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Bill on July 08, 2003, 01:41:19 PM
Found a nice plugin (well reads nice anyways. Haven't tried it) for iPhoto once you have toast at versiontracker.
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: tacit on July 08, 2003, 02:01:19 PM
The mac's built-in software makes a "hybrid" ISO9660/Mac CD by default. CDs you create with the Mac's built-in software will work fine on a PC.

Here is what you do:

Step 1: Put in a blank CD.
Step 2: Format it as a hybrid (the default).
Step 3: Run iPhoto.
Step 4: Hilight all the photos you want to send.
Step 5: Drag the photos to the CD.
Step 6: Burn the CD with the "Burn CD" command from the Special menu (not with the Burn CD command in iPhoto!).
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: kps on July 08, 2003, 09:26:44 PM
Re: "hybrid" CD burning...

That's good to know, thanks, I didn't think that was available in the system software.

I've been transfering my images to a Wintel machine and using that to burn CD's destined for Win users, but now I don't have to. smile.gif
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Rubydog on July 08, 2003, 10:35:45 PM
Hello All,

What a wondeful response. clap.gif Many thanks.  I've burned 2 cds to test drive tomorrow using the macosxhints approach and the Tacit post approach.  I'll let you know how they do.

I went to my girlfriends family reunion last week and took a mess-o-pictures.  This'll impress 'em...

Steve
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Toad on July 08, 2003, 11:09:15 PM
If your burn the CD from the Finder (OSX 10.2) it will be readable by "dark side" computers.  You should export the files you want to share to a folder on the desktop.  Then, while in the Finder, insert a CD in the drive and select Action: Open Finder and name the CD.  Then drag the image files from the folder to the CD.  When the transfer is complete, drag the CD to the Trash, which changes to the burn icon and your CD is burned.  

It has to be burned from the finder, NOT IPhoto.

Good Luck.
Title: sharing iphotos with pc friends
Post by: Rubydog on July 10, 2003, 08:47:43 PM
Hi Friends,
 
Turns out my second method kinda worked.  A pc cannot open folders but can open jpegs just fine.  The disk I had my friend try to open had all the photos in various folders.  When I tried loading the pictures on the cd via the export command in iphoto (and burning from the finder) I didn't have the pictures organized in folders.  It worked!
 
Apple's default burn format is the cross platform ISO9660.
 
The iphoto export command and burning from the finder is the way to go.  It preserves the image titles and the cd opens with thumbnails.
 
Thanks for all your help.
 
Steve