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Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress



On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:42:45PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote:
> > I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make
> > a really nice slide show, and exported it to html.  
> > 
> > It works great.
> > 
> > Except that the slide control buttons, a series of .gif's, are messed up
> > somehow.  Or my computer is messed up somehow.
> 
> I'm sorry to say, the code to create the compressed .gifs is patented and we
> had to disable it.  I wasn't actually aware that Impress has the option to
> create GIFs for export, although I won't have time to look at disabling it
> for a while.

The patent's expired now...

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