This is Version 0.1 of hpcdtoppm, Hadmut's pcd to ppm converter.
It has this name to be distinguishable in case someone
else is producing a program also called pcdtoppm.

This program converts Photo-CD-Images to the ppm-Format of
pbmplus. Therefore you need some files from the pbmplus
package to compile:

ppm.h pgm.h pbm.h pbmplus.h libppm.a libpgm.a libpbm.a

I did not have detailed information of the file-format and
i could test it only with a single Photo-CD with 24 Images.
Most of my information i got by starring at the hex-dumps
of an image file. So i am not absolutly sure, whether it
works on all Photo-CDs, because there are some bytes in
the header which i don't understand. But it works on
my Photo-CD.

Note that you will get a 24 bit image. You can view these
files with xv, but if you have an 8-bit-screen you will
sometimes have some color-defects (if you have an 1-bit-screen
you will often have a lot of color-defects :-). 
It will also take some time to show with xv.


If anyone finds anything which doesn't work, please send
me email (danisch@ira.uka.de) and perhaps you could try
to find out why.

Hadmut

