On Friday 17 August 2001 08:27, Len Lawrence wrote: > On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Andrew wrote: > > Thanks civilme, > > I'm not going to use this .gif thing for my daily use. It's just an > > assignment from school about producing a gif animated banner. I know > > this is an easy piece if I did it in windogs, but since I love my > > mandrake/linux box, I was just wondering if mandrake/linux provides such > > software. I looked at GIMP help directory and found that this software > > could make a .gif animation. does anyone know where I can get any help or > > manual for GIMP specifically chapter about .gif animation? > > Thanks for the answer > > The GIMP will certainly let you create a GIF89a image containing an > animated sequence but it looks fairly complicated. The SAMS book > Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours devotes chapter 23 to the subject. > ($25 US, 23.50 pounds sterling - also available as a 17 Mb PDF file) > Never tried it myself but could quote chapter and verse if you were > interested (not to the list though). > > Another way is to use the slide show capability of the ImageMagick suite; > invoke display with the -delay option, but this might not be all that > useful because the delay, although specified in 0.01 second units, > is rounded up to the nearest second. In other words the timing is > quantized at the one second level. > > Will continue to research this... > > Cheers ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- The SAMS TYS GIMP book is on the Mandrake 8.0 Commercial Applications 2 CD if you have a boxed set -- Peter Watson
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