At 20:16 -0400 1999-06-05, Branden Robinson wrote:
Keep in mind that neither GIFs nor TIFFs per se have any problems. It is the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm, which is an optional part of the image file formats, that is the problem.
That is not true of GIF actually, the "uncompressed GIF" hack is a bit more complicated than just not compressing the image data, see /usr/doc/libungif3g/UNCOMPRESSED_GIF.
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