Re: [ProgSoc] Where can I grab a GIF Editor?

[Colin Yip <bozak@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Adam Greaves wrote:

> I would have thought it would be hard to find a free image editor that
> would do gifs these days. I don't remember all the details, but wasn't
> there some hoo-haa a few years ago over compuserve demanding licencing
> fees for companies producing software that used the gif compression
> algorithm? 
> Wasn't that put forward as one of the arguments for going to pngs (as well
> as their technical superiority)

Yep. The company in question was Unisys. They're still hollering on about
the lzh algorithm which was used in the earlier gif compression software.
If there's a utility that would allow me to manipulate animated image
files other than GIF out there, I would appreciate it.
Also, I'm looking for some good java libraries that would allow me to use
them to that effect.

> -- 
> Adam Greaves,  
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> 
> "And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, heard his cry and
> saw how he died, he said 'Surely this man was the Son of God'" - Mark 15:39
> 

--
Col'n

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