In Win Gimp, one has to download a plug-in from outside the country (for copyright reasons) in order to handle gif files. --Calvin
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John Culleton Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 12:12 PM To: Rich Shepard; Carol Spears Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Re: Really easy newbie questions (I hope)... On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:19, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Carol Spears wrote: > > On 2002-01-31 at 0124.38 -0800, Doris Philastre typed this mail: > > > Okay, I created an image in GIMP that has no background for use on a > > > web site. I saved it as a .psd file because GIMP doesn't support .gif. > > Doris/Carol, > > > sounds like you need to install the non-free GIMP. i am not sure how > > your distribution handles this, but the gif libraries need to be special > > requested to keep the developers out of jail. same with tiff format. > > PMFJI, but I didn't see the beginning of this thread. I'd like to > contribute two thoughts: > > 1) Use your image in JPEG (.jpg) format on your web page. That's what > we've done (URL is in the sig, below) and it works very well. This avoids > the patents and other legal issues associated with GIF. I don't think that > I have a single .gif left on our network. They've all been converted to > either .jpg (for pictorial image files) or .tif (for spatial imagery data > files). > > Now I am totaly confused. My version of Gimp for Linux 1.2.2 seems to handle gifs both incoming and outgoing. So what is the patent/copyright problem and why doesn't it affect ImageMagick equally as much? John Culleton __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
