Re: VMs: Beinecke & MrSID...

[william edmondson <w.h.edmondson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I run macs  -  supposed to be the world's best for image handling, and 
so Lizard abandons them.  Sigh

Many hours later, re-installing stuff and whatever...

Tried all that and no images are available.  Did the site go down?

William


On 31 May 2004, at 23:39, Clay Holden wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> > BTW, LizardTech also released (IIRC) a Java viewer for MrSID files, 
> > which
> > should work fine under Linux (if somewhat slower). Might be worth 
> > trying to
> > dig up, though.
>
> LizardTech orphaned a bunch of operating systems with their release of
> Version 4.0, including MacOS. A search of their web-site turns up
> documentation of how to use the Mac versions and the Java viewer, but 
> it's
> nowhere to be found.
>
> However, a link on the main page to their Japanese web-site reveals 
> that the
> MrSID viewer for Mac OS 8/9 is still downloadable, and can be found 
> here:
>
> http://www.lizardtech.co.jp/download/mrsid/
>
> If you're running OS X, you'll need to have Netscape and/or Explorer
> installed in your Classic Applications folder.
>
> Hope this helps some of you.
>
> Also, there is no reason why Beinecke can't set up a MrSID viewer 
> server on
> their web-site to display these images on any system, as demonstrated 
> by the
> following web-site at the University of Virginia:
>
> http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/mrsid/
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Clay
>
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