Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:38:56 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, cliff@raggedclown.net Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. Message-ID: <14902.14464.409030.170937@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <100300842@toto.iv>
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> types: > * Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> [001212 01:34] wrote: > > Hello, > > I am educating my son in the ways of non-MS software :) > > Is there a port of anything available for making > > animated GIFs ? I guess you can do it with the GIMP, but that is way too > > complex for him (and for me!) > When I read "It's that time of year. GIF files." I thought you > were referrnig to "Burn all GIFs day". > Unfortunetly the GIF encoding scheme is patetended by a company > called Unisys, which didn't enforce the patent until it was in use > everywhere. > It's not thier fault, apparently they didn't know the compression > scheme was thiers until everyone was using it, however they also > didn't mention it when the designer had an article up about it > that there was a patent pending. > > Tell your kid to "just say no to GIFs". I'm sure there's a better > format out there, avi maybe? PNG was *designed* to replace GIFs after the patent fiasco. They threw in a lot of other good stuff while they were at it, though. Look into the ImageMagick port. It can play animations, and has a command line tool to create them. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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