From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 22:38:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from the.outroad.org (the.outroad.org [206.152.117.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8897837B724 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:38:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bweaver@the.outroad.org) Received: (from bweaver@localhost) by the.outroad.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f345gCf55602; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:42:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bweaver) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:42:12 -0500 From: Ben Weaver To: Mark Sergeant Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support Message-ID: <20010404004212.A55318@tranquility.net> References: <200104040233.f342Xmk18014@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104040233.f342Xmk18014@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net>; from msergeant@looksmart.net on Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:33:43PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ###On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am trying to install gimp from ports and it compiles & installs fine > when using it though it lacks support for saving gifs which is quite a pain as > I need to save as gif for transparency purposes. Any ideas anyone ? I think it doesn't have gif support because of some patent issues surrounding the compression algorithm the gif format uses (i.e. you have to pay royalties to put it in your software). Could you maybe use PNG instead of GIF? -Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message