Just out of curiosity, are these files in a DAM or did you get them elsewhere? The reason I ask is that you appear to have a bunch of pharmaceutical cards in a CONTENTdm system at http://nyam.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4129coll16 If you're trying to extract the image files from CDM, the cpd file is an XML file defining a compound object with object odentifiers, filenames, and descriptions.You can iterate through all the images separately kyle On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:15 AM, Andrew Gordon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hey All, > > For a set of digitized pharmaceutical cards, I am coming up against an > image file format that seems to be locked in time. It's supposedly a > Compressed PhotoDefiner (?) lossless (.cpd) file ( > http://www.photodefiner.com/home/). Though when I try to load up the > software, I can't get it to take on any of our windows machines (running 8 > and 7). Don't have a mac on hand so don't know if that works or not, > currently. > > In my experience, though, I've always been able to find some rogue third > party file converter (or imagemagick) to be helpful in these scenarios but > this format is just not something that appears to have been accounted for. > Additionally, it's one of those file formats that seem to only pop randomly > generated answer sites with questionable downloads in a google search, such > as http://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/file-extension-cpd/ > > Just wanted to see if anyone has come across this format and whether there > might be any tools to convert it. > > Thanks, > Drew > > > > ________________________________________ > Andrew Gordon, MSI > Systems Librarian > Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health > New York Academy of Medicine > 1216 Fifth Avenue > New York, NY, 10029 > 212.822.7324 > http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/ >