On Thursday 04 March, Richard Lyon wrote:
> > I'm trying to use fig2dev to convert fig format images into gifs, but I
> > keep getting empty gif files.
>
> Your right! It's actually the transfig package as a whole which appears to
> have no support for the generation of gif.
that's bizarre. it specifically says in the fig2dev man page that it
can output to gif, or atleast, that it's a valid option. I quote;
-L Set the output graphics language. Valid languages are acad
(AutoCad slide format), box, epic, eepic, eepicemu, gif, ibmgl,
jpeg, latex, mf (METAFONT), pcx, pic, pictex, png, ppm, ps,
pstex, pstex_t, textyl, tiff, tk (tcl/tk), tpic, xbm and xpm.
> If you look at the source code you will find there is support for reading
> gifs, but none for generating them.
fair enough. jpeg it is then (I can't rely on the audience's browsers
being capable of reading png files just yet).
I suppose I could find something else that can do jpeg -> gif
conversion, but there doesn't seem to be much point converting from a
lossy format to a non lossy format just for the sake of it!
thanks for the reply.
--
Graham
