[ARMini-support] PhotoFix for Cortex A9 machines (and maybe A8)
- From: "Chris Bell (Lists)" <chris.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <armini-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:03:53 +0000 (GMT)
Chris Bell (Lists) <chris.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul Sprangers <Paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Chris Bell (Lists) <chris.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Has anyone had any success manipulating photos using a 'fixed'
> > > version of Photodesk on an ARMiniX or PandaRO? If so, which version
> > > Photodesk and which version OS? I haven't had much luck.
> > Oddly, I never needed any fix for using Photodesk on my ARMiniX - at
> > least not that I remember. That's Photodesk 3.12 (2012/04/22) on an
> > ARMiniX with RISCOS 5.21.
> Well, what d'ya know? I've just re-tried an unfixed version (3.12,
> 2012/04/22) under OS 5.21 (14-Feb-15) with AemulorPro (2.33) and it
> almost worked. I had much less success a year ago under an earlier OS.
> Now, since the 2 versions crash doing very different things, maybe some
> diligent experimenting will reveal a combination of bits from each one
> which is reliable. I'll report back if/when I succeed!
It DOES work and I'm a happy man!!!
I've been manipulating photos for years, using mainly DPlngScan, but this
lacks a few facilities which I'd hoped PhotoDesk would fill. However I
found PD too unreliable a year ago (using an earlier OS version) and gave
up... until this afternoon, when I've been having a lot of success.
Hooray!
I'm using virgin PhotoDesk 3.12 under OS 5.21 (14-Feb-15) with AemulorPro
(2.33) on a PandaRO. What I thought was a crash yesterday (a seemingly
never-ending hourglass) turns out to have simply been my own impatience -
some large photo transformations take a LONG time and I should simply have
waited longer.
One problem is that !PDF won't display the PDF Manual while AemulorPro is
running, but the much slower !GView will - once again, patience is what's
called for!
I regret that !PhotoFix didn't work for me. The fixed app usually (why
not all the time?) crashed on loading. I did get it to work once,
however, and even managed a simple image transformation, but only after
reverting to a virgin !Boot with nothing else running. The next time I
tried exactly the same sequence, it crashed.
PhotoDesk is going to take a little while to master, especially since the
user-interface isn't as intuitive as it might be. But it works and I can
now do things to photos which I couldn't do before - for example
correcting parallax distortion and leveling the horizon without any
guesswork.
I hope this feedback is helpful to others.
Chris Bell.
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