Did Phil say the guys do not use computers? If not how are they going to
access the fax and picture viewer?

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:15:28 -0400, "Peter Ekkerman" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
> Hi Phil,
> 
> I'll make a start for you.
> Everybody has slide show software on their computer.
> It's included with Windows Operating system and is known as Picture and 
> Fax Viewer.
> For 40 jpg pictures use a CD (700 MB) that's plenty of space.
> Using a DVD is really a waste of space, unless you make a big production
> out of it with music and text or other graphics.
> Burning the files to CD you need to create a VCD which will play in a 
> DVD player.
> Even the most simple VCD will play and advance with the DVD player's FWD 
> button.
> If you have one of the later versions of Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator,
> I doubt you need another program to create menus.
> Since you didn't give the version of Roxio,all I can suggest is RTFM
> or Read The Friendly Manual and be prepared to spend some time
> experimenting with the settings.
> Any advice at this point may be irrelevant since we don't know all the 
> features of the program.
> 
> Peter E.
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Slide show options
> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: 23-Jun-2008 9:20:56 PM
> 
> I have a collection of 30-40 jpeg pics I want to put on a disc to  send
> to friends and family in a slide show format. Some people recieving it
> will  not have slide show software on their machines so I wonder if
> there is a small
> (free) program that I can include on the disc to give them easy controls
> of the
> show. Would I have to create the disc as an iso image to "auto-start"
> the  show?
>    Another option I wonder about is creating it as a DVD. Some of the
> folks don't use computers (imagine that!) but do own dvd players. I
> recently  bought and installed Roxio Easy cd and dvd creator. I haven't
> used it except for  data cds so I'm not really familiar with the program
> yet. Would the individual
> pics be saved as chapters and would I have to create a chapters list as
> seen at
> the begining of factory movie dvds? I realize a lot of this can be
> discovered by  a deeper study of my software, which I'm embarking on,
> but I hoped some of you  may have some tips, pointers or shortcuts that
> might help.
>   Many thanks,
> Phil Williams
> 
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