sounds like a new sourceforge project is hatched...?

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From: Armin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 2:45 PM
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Subject: Re: generating GIFs


Robert Brown wrote:
> Andrew Gaffney writes:
>  > zentara wrote:
>  > > Well, gifs were shunned by alot of the software writers because of
>  > > the old patent issues. So your best bet will be to make your image as
>  > > a jpg or png, then convert it to gif afterwards.
>  >
>  > Is PNG a good format for a 51x20 image with 4 or 5 colors?
>  >
>  > > If you want to make an animated gif, you can
>  > > use something like this:
>  > > system("gifsicle -lforever $graphical*.gif > $graphical.anim.gif")
>  >
>  > I've used gifsicle before to make animated GIFs. That was a nifty
little program.
>
> Is there any alternative to gifs to make animated images?  Flash is
> proprietary to macromedia, and gif to Unisys.  Is there such a thing
> as an animated png?  How about a free (in the GPL sense) open sourced
> alternative to Flash?
>

Well, it isn't impossible, though it is inconvenient, to make multiple
images and switch through them with JavaScript...

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