Re: Q: uploading revisions
> > > Also, does anyone know of a free gif<-->xpm converter? Now I use
> > > netpbm which requires me to put fvwmconf in contrib.
> >
> > There aren't any, GIF is intristicly non-free due to Unisys's patent on
> > it's compression and therefore anything that does GIF has to go in
> > non-free.
>
> Excatly. So, the full answer is: Don't use GIF, then. Use something
> else (jpg, pgm, pnm, whatever, but don't use GIF).
I was using perl-tk , which can only display gifs, (it was supposed to
display something else, but I couldn't get it to work. Maybe this will
change soon.) (Maybe its time to look at python-tk !)
I got a tip to use ImageMagick from Christian Leutloff
<leutloff@sundancer.oche.de> . Apparantly you can get a free one that
does not use the compression algorithm. (deb package)
I'll try it. This is a big problem, given the ubiquity of gif .
G John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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