Import of Kodak Photo CD-format

How can I import files with extentions .pcd in Lightroom 1.1 from a Kodak Photo CD. In Photoshop CS3 (Windows XP), with the plugin "Photo CD.8BI", I have no problems to read such files.

PhotoCD is a dead format. Shame really as it was pretty good. Kodak however,
got greedy and wouldn't open it up and so it died. I would suggest you
convert your PCD images to TIF. I doubt that Lightroom will ever support it.
Robert

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