From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 6:39: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 06:38:57 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0EF2737B404 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 06:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 60000 invoked by uid 100); 12 Dec 2000 14:38:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14902.14464.409030.170937@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 08:38:56 -0600 (CST) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: questions@freebsd.org, cliff@raggedclown.net Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. In-Reply-To: <100300842@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein types: > * Cliff Sarginson [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. 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