Note this software is provided free of charge for unrestricted use.
No liability is accepted for performance.
Whereas reasonable care has been taken to ensure that CD-i Print is fit for the purpose for which it will be used, Philips Media makes no guarantee or warranty, whether express or implied either by Philips Media or by law, in relation thereto and Philips Media shall not be liable for any financial or other loss arising however in connection with the use of CD-i Print
1.0 Installing the Software
1.1 System Requirements
486 PC with 200MB+ free space on HDD
SCSI controller
CDD521/522 or other recorder
WinOnCD CD writing software
Windows presentation software
1.2 Disc Contents
\buffer: dummy files to pad the disc
\cmds: the CD-i applications
\junk: more dummy files to pad the first session
\mswin: printer driver and viewer program
\qhy: presentation file in CD-i video image format
1.3 Installation
Copy the complete CD disc to the directory c:\prescd
If your default drive is not c:\ then you will need to change the properties field in WinOnCD the cdpres.toc file when you write the disc to reflect the drive letter that you have chosen, for example if you are copying the disc contents to your e:\ drive, change the properties field to e:\prescd
Remove the read-only mark from all files by using "properties" option in file manager.
Set up a new printer driver by using the Windows Control Panel, Printers selection,
to add a new printer called < drive>:\prescd\mswin\cdi.drv as the driver.
Connect this printer to 'File' (the default is LPT1).
Using the Control Panel, Printers, Setup, change the paper size to CDI PAL LANDSCAPE ( or NTSC if creating a disc for viewing
on an American TV) Then with the Control Panel, Printers, Setup, Options move the intensity control bar to 75% light.
Exit the Control Panel and copy the file <drive>:\prescd\mswin\dmcolor.dll to the c:\windows\system directory.
2.0 How to Use This Software.
2.1 Creating the presentation.
Make a presentation in your favourite Windows package.
Take care to use a simple range of colours, and to use fonts that are suitable for display on a TV screen (see Viewing Presentation on a PC, below).
Use a slide size format that will create an on-screen show.
The target image size is 768 x 560 in PAL (European TVs) or 768 x 280 for NTSC (American TVs) , but up to 20% of the screen area is lost due to the fact that a TV over scans and some of the image is effectively displayed 'around the corner' of the tube. A few experiments should allow you to define the usable area of the screen.
2.2 Converting to CD-i format
When ready, select the Philips Presentation CD as the default printer and print the presentation to a file called c:\prescd\qhy\pcd_qhy.com the default name that the CD-i application requires.
Note that this file is overwritten each time a new conversion
to CD-i is made.
2.3 Writing the CD-i disc
Start WinOnCD and select <drive>:\prescd\mswin\prescd.toc as the new TOC for the disc.
NOTE - remember to edit the Properties field of the TOC file to reflect the location of the \prescd directory. (F4 and change directory) if you have not used the c:\ drive.
IMPORTANT-Please note that due to the nature of the CD-i player, you will need to create a disc of about 100Mb. Few presentations reach this size, so a dummy directory called \JUNK has been included to artificially increase the final image file size.
If you want to save disc space by using your own padding files, simply delete the directory \JUNK and write your own padding files directory as a second ISO XA-1 track after the first track.
Delete the volume label when selecting this second track.
Write the disc and finalise the session.
3.0 Viewing the Presentation on a PC
If you want to check how the presentation will look on a CD-i player, you can preview the converted slides using the tool vpcd.exe, which is found in the mswin directory.
The viewed file is called the file pcd_qhy.com
NOTE: to use vpcd.exe you must copy the pcd_qhy.com file to a directory called c:\prescd\qhy\
4.0 Defualt Presentation
There is a default presentation titled viewme.ppt on the root directory of the CD which describes the CD-i player and gives some hints on when your presentations would benefit from being shown on CD-i.