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Re: Q: uploading revisions



On 26 Sep 1997 16:20:59 PDT Carl R. Witty (cwitty@newtonlabs.com) 
wrote:

> "Gerald John Lapeyre, Jr." <lapeyre@newton.physics.arizona.edu> writes:

> >     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) 
> 
> The free version (i.e., the version in the Debian main distribution)
> does not support GIFs.

It supports GIF reading and writing, but write is uncompressed with the free version.
It can read compressed GIFs too (the decompression algorithm is not patented).
Installing libmagick-lzw instead of libmagick just adds compression on write.

Phil.



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