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General Philatelic/Supplies, Literature & Software : My experience with Scott CD stamp catalog

 

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16 Jan 2009
11:06:53am
I saw a previous thread about stamp catalogues on CD and thought I should give my experience.
I bought a used 2006 Scott Catalogue set on CD and was very disappointed with the experience of trying to use it - how do you know which of the 12 CDs you need, and why do you need to keep switching them? I had some experience writing programs with Visual Basic so I loaded all the pdf files from the CDs onto my hard drive and wrote a program to select and open the files I need. It has no frills but it has 'unlocked' the potential of what I had. My program lists all the stamp issuing entities, so I select the one I want, and click to open the file. When I wrote the program I had the idea of putting it out as shareware but never went anywhere with that. If there is any interest in it I could try to let some other people try it. I have installed it on 2-3 computers with Windows XP, it may not work with Vista.

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Saleem
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16 Feb 2009
09:52:39am
re: My experience with Scott CD stamp catalog

That is excellent work Brian - maybe the publishers of Scott Catalog should know that waht a small program could do. Anyway the recent Scott catalogs are offered on DVDs with the PDF menu making it easier nad you only have to change the DVD once but the file access time on a DVD is more than on a CD. Also with these new DVDs you cannot copy the files on your hard disk like you did with the CDs, the printing of pages is also blocked on these.
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16 Jan 2009
11:06:53am

I saw a previous thread about stamp catalogues on CD and thought I should give my experience.
I bought a used 2006 Scott Catalogue set on CD and was very disappointed with the experience of trying to use it - how do you know which of the 12 CDs you need, and why do you need to keep switching them? I had some experience writing programs with Visual Basic so I loaded all the pdf files from the CDs onto my hard drive and wrote a program to select and open the files I need. It has no frills but it has 'unlocked' the potential of what I had. My program lists all the stamp issuing entities, so I select the one I want, and click to open the file. When I wrote the program I had the idea of putting it out as shareware but never went anywhere with that. If there is any interest in it I could try to let some other people try it. I have installed it on 2-3 computers with Windows XP, it may not work with Vista.

Brian

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16 Feb 2009
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re: My experience with Scott CD stamp catalog

That is excellent work Brian - maybe the publishers of Scott Catalog should know that waht a small program could do. Anyway the recent Scott catalogs are offered on DVDs with the PDF menu making it easier nad you only have to change the DVD once but the file access time on a DVD is more than on a CD. Also with these new DVDs you cannot copy the files on your hard disk like you did with the CDs, the printing of pages is also blocked on these.
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