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Greg Noel Date: Thu Nov 18, 1999 5:03 am Subject: Re: Making .GIF Files | ||||||||
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At 7:05 PM -0800 11/17/99, Valerie Sutton wrote: >... program to create .GIFs...knowing of a free program would be >great - hope you can write to tell us - Sorry, this is a contradiction. Unisys and IBM hold patents on the GIF format and they want $$$ for programs to create the format. (Readers are free, but not writers.) See https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for more info. PNG (https://www.cdrom.com/pub/png) is the up-and-coming replacement for GIF and is standardized by W3C (https://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG). It doesn't do animation, but MNG (https://www.cdrom.com/pub/mng), a related format that's not quite an extension, does. PNG is not yet as wide-spread as GIF, but it's getting there. I have no idea if it's supported on all the mail readers you are using; it might be interesting to find out. If enough handled it, you could use PNG. -- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru | ||||||||
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