From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 17:45:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F68A37B43C for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f350iUk39559; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:44:33 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104050044.f350iUk39559@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: chip@chocobo.cx, Christopher Farley , Chip Marshall Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 04 Apr 2001 19:44:27 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <20010404162452.A28725@setzer.chocobo.cx> References: <20010404004212.A55318@tranquility.net> <20010404102235.A42815@northernbrewer.com> <20010404162452.A28725@setzer.chocobo.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well guys that has fixed it for me, I was only ever saving using the choices I had which GIF never showed up in. I saved by extension and it all works fantastically. Thanks for the help guys. Cheers, Mark On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:24:52 -0400, Chip Marshall said: > On April 04, 2001, Christopher Farley sent me the following: > > I'm running the latest version of GIMP and I can load and save gifs > > left and right. > > > > Unlike image formats like .jpg, .gif images need to be converted to > > indexed color mode before GIMP (or Photoshop or any other image > > manipulation program) will save them. > > In the GIMP that I'm running (1.2.1) there is support for gif files, > and I've found you don't have to manually convert to indexed color > before saving. Just set the Determine File Type to By Extension, type > in a file name ending in .gif, and it will pop up an Export File > window for your image conversion needs. Very handy. > -- For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. -- R. Clopton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message