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Re: Writing GIFs



also sprach Craig Dickson <crdic@pacbell.net> [2002.09.11.1955 +0200]:
> I realize I am a terrible person for wanting to violate Unisys's
> patents, but I'm working on a web site that I think will often be
> visited by people with old browsers (it's the site for the elementary
> school my daughter attends), so rather than use PNGs, I think I'd be
> better off with GIFs. GIMP 1.2, even with the gimp-nonfree package,
> seems only to read GIFs, not write them. Does anyone know of a good,
> free-at-least-as-in-beer Linux program to translate PNGs and/or BMPs to
> compressed GIFs? If not, I guess I'll have to use Microsoft Photo Editor
> on Windows...

use gimp to create file.png and then use imagemagick's convert:
  convert file.png file.gif

has the advantage that you get both, png and gif.

or has imagemagick's gif support been removed?

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