Kodak Photo CD Portfolio II disc

Kodak developed the Portfolio disc to provide a platform for branching presentations, complete with sound. These presentations are view able on television players with the ability to handle Photo CD discs. Players include Kodak and Philips brand players, 3DO, and several other brands compatible with Portfolio discs.

There is also simulation software that makes viewing Portfolio disc programs possible on Macintosh. and PC compatible computers. Kodak provides Photo CD viewer software with each copy of Photo CD Access Plus software. Sound from Portfolio discs is available through independent sound systems attached to the CD-ROM drives on these computers.

A recent upgrade to the Portfolio disc format makes possible presentation software as well as software of any other type - on the same disc. It is now possible for anyone with a capable CD writer to put any kind of data onto the Portfolio II disc. This added flexibility makes the disc more attractive to multimedia publishers whose interests include the distribution of presentations made with Kodak Arrange-It and Build-It production software, combined with software created with any other applications for any other purpose.

Files in photo formats, TIFF, EPS, GIF, Scitex CT, can be written to Portfolio II discs, as can bookkeeping data, databases, and presentations made with Persuasion or other similar software. In addition, Photo CD Image Pac files can be created by a new Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop) software, and these Image}e Par files are compatible with all software on any computer or television player that can read a Photo CD disc.

With this new ability to build Image Pac files from images in Photoshop software, the barriers that once limited Photo CD are gone. It is now possible to open a Photo CD image from a Photo CD Master disc, modify it, and then write it to a Portfolio II disc in Photo CD format. It is also possible to open an image in Photoshop software from an illustration program like Adobe Illustrator, convert it to Photo CD Image Pac format, and write it to the disc.

CMYK files from desktop or high-end drum scanners can also be written to the Portfolio II disc, making their transport between systems easier and faster. These CMYK files and related computer records can be a part of a publishing project transferred from one location to another on Kodak Photo CD discs.


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