From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 22:48:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (dhcp.looksmart.com.au [202.53.47.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA33037B71D for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:48:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Received: from xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f345lXk04836; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:47:36 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from msergeant@snsonline.net) Message-Id: <200104040547.f345lXk04836@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Mark Sergeant" To: Ben Weaver , Mark Sergeant Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimp's lack of gif support X-Mailer: Pronto v2.2.3 On freebsd/mysql Date: 04 Apr 2001 00:47:31 EST Reply-To: "Mark Sergeant" In-Reply-To: <20010404004212.A55318@tranquility.net> References: <200104040233.f342Xmk18014@xyzzy.intranet.snsonline.net> <20010404004212.A55318@tranquility.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG PNG's transparency don't work in a browser though :/ Apart from transparency I would not use gif but png / jpegs . On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:42:12 -0500, Ben Weaver said: > ###On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 09:33:43PM -0500, Mark Sergeant wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I am trying to install gimp from ports and it compiles & installs fine > > when using it though it lacks support for saving gifs which is quite a pain as > > I need to save as gif for transparency purposes. Any ideas anyone ? > > I think it doesn't have gif support because of some patent issues > surrounding the compression algorithm the gif format uses (i.e. you > have to pay royalties to put it in your software). > > Could you maybe use PNG instead of GIF? > > -Ben > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- I call them as I see them. If I can't see them, I make them up. -- Biff Barf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message