Tons of Macintosh Vector Art...but no way to use :(

[James Burke]

I found 48 CD's of vector, raster and photo images on CD today. They came with two very thick catalogs and it's a dang shame I can't open anything. I was hoping Illustrator would somehow be able to read the files.

Other CDs in the bunch were some older Adobe software, and misc print shop type of programs for a grand total of 53 CDs.
Now...my only problem is that I have a PC.

My question: Is there an emulator I can run on Windows that will allow me to open and use these files? If so what is it, and where do I find it?

If nothing like that exists, then PM me and I'll sell them cheap.




JB

 

[Fred Weiss]

I think you may find that you will be able to open most or all of them once you transfer them to a local drive and add correct extensions for PC use to them. EPS and JPG are pretty much platform independent. Older TIF files may be troublesome though.

If you want to send me a few examples attached to an email, I will check into what you have and how to go about using it.

 

[James Burke]

I can't even open the drive to explore the CD. It says "corrupted files" or unrecognized format.

How do I work around that?

Jim

 

[Fred Weiss]

I can't even open the drive to explore the CD. It says "corrupted files" or unrecognized format.

How do I work around that?

Jim

That's a pretty old CD then. As a seller of CDs and DVDs, I can tell you that all the modern formats are platform independent. You may need to download something like THIS to get the job done.

 

[James Burke]

Thanks...I'll give it a try.


JB