Does anyone one know of a program, either freeware or unlimited shareware, which will allow a pc user to access the files on a cd which was made on a mac. Tried mac cd shareware version, but it is limited and the conversion rate is far too slow. We need to access eps, gif and jpg files of around 1.5 to 2mb in size. There is a full version available but 79.99 seems a lot of money just to read one cd. The person who made the cd says he does not know how to make the files readable on a pc, despite the fact that everyone else who has supplied mac cds for this project has managed to do this. Would be extremely grateful for any help on this issue.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

There are several programs that allow PCs to read Mac diskettes/cds, etc. unfortunatly they are all around $50 USA dollars. I had a similar problem and went to a macintosh store and told them my problem, bought a blank CD from the store and they did the conversion for me, very kind of them, and only cost me $5 USA. some print houses, kinkos copy center etc will burn CDs of scanned images. these stores or shops may have a way to convert the CD you have cheaper than buying a application that you will only use one time. hope these sugjestions help.

http://www.mediafour.com/downloads/default.asp At this url you should be able to download a 5-day trial version of Macdrive, what I have been using for years to read those pesky Mac only cds e-mails etc....It is seamless works beautifully. The only other cheap way would be for them to pass the files through stuffit (standard compressor for Mac)after making sure that they have applied the proper suffixes to the files (eps, jpg etc...), e-mail the files to you and you could then decompresss them using stuffit expander for windows which you could download for free at http://www.aladdinsys.com/ Hope this helps

Dominique Digital Cats Media

Thanks for your help, that macdrive one sounds just what we need.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."

I remember using a utility called Transmac that worked very well...i beleive the free version does files up to 4 MB, i can look when i get to work tomorrow if you want.

Attached Link: ftp://ftp.iif.hu/.ftp1/ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win95/dskutil/transmac.zip

here is a link for the older/trial version, not sure what the file restrictions are though.