Perhaps you should have started here:
<http://www.imaging-resource.com/ARTS/GDF/GDF.HTM>
Chuck Norcutt
Bob Whitmire wrote:
> A couple of years ago, No. 1 Son gave me a digital picture frame. A
> Smartparts SPDPF70E, to be exact. Having finally located a card reader
> that my computers will talk to, I managed to load up an Olympus xD
> card. The images were astonishingly horrid looking on the frame, and
> before each one faded out, "Wrong File Content" displayed on the
> screen. So I went to the manufacturer's web site, www.smartpartsproducts.com
> and fished around until I found an interesting bit of information.
> The frames don't like images processed on a Macintosh. The site
> recommended a file cleaner to get the Mac stuff out. I dutifully
> cleaned my xD card and reinserted it. The images are still electronic
> excrement, but no longer display "Wrong File Content."
>
> Needless to say, I'm not a happy camper. Once upon a time I had
> entertained visions of putting newer pictures on the frame and hanging
> it at the craft coop to mesmerize customers and cause them to reach
> for their wallets, but alas, I fear if I let them see this, they would
> run screaming from the building, never to return. They also would be
> likely to pay shamans, witch doctors and, possibly, professional hit
> men to cleanse the world of me and my images.
>
> Bletch! I hate spending time to make something work only to find my
> time would have been better spent picking the wings off flies.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> "Art's just fart without the eff."
> www.bwp33.com
>
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