On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:55:37AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> 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...
GIMP issues are already answered but let me draw your attention to the
UNISYS issue.
http://www.ora.com/infocenters/gff/gff-faq/
I never used it but there are utilities called ungif in debian. That
may be what you want :)
$ apt-cache search ungif
With this, you can use GIF like Debian web site :-)
(We all know GNU site does not like usiong these non-LZW GIF too.)
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