From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 5:16:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EDCA37B76A for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 05:16:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8 (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA23494; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 05:16:27 -0700 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 05:12:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: To: Ben Weaver Cc: Mark Sergeant , Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support In-Reply-To: <20010404004212.A55318@tranquility.net> Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; SunOS 5.8 i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Wed, 4 Apr 2001 it looks like Ben Weaver composed: bweave->###On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: bweave->> Hi guys, bweave->> bweave->> I am trying to install gimp from ports and it compiles & installs fine bweave->> when using it though it lacks support for saving gifs which is quite a pain as bweave->> I need to save as gif for transparency purposes. Any ideas anyone ? bweave-> bweave->I think it doesn't have gif support because of some patent issues bweave->surrounding the compression algorithm the gif format uses (i.e. you bweave->have to pay royalties to put it in your software). bweave-> .......... the earlier versions of GIMP had no issues with this, it was maybe close to two years ago they released the version(s) that don't. Look for an earlier version. I know back in RedHat-5.2 it was still working, you'd have to do some research on that version. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message