On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Joris Lambrecht wrote: > this .gif file format is no longer publicly available since some company (by > sudden insanity) decided to start earning money on it's patents,
Unisys. http://www.unisys.com/unisys/lzw > i'd advise you to use .jpg or any other format wich will get you similar > results in size AND quality JPEG is great stuff for continuous-tone images (photographs and the like) but if you use it with line art (which is what GIF is best for) you get ugly smudges around the edges of things. PNG was designed to be the better, patent-free successor to GIF. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make a good day.