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Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff [message #27534 is a reply to message #27532]

Sun, 28 October 2001 09:14

wmconnolley
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Registered: November 2000

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Joseph B. Gurman <gurman@crosslink.net> wrote:
> Everything people have been saying about PNG and other modern file
> formats is true (AFAIK), but we have hundreds of pieces of IDL code that
> write GIF's, and support a library that has hundreds more. some of them
> ar eused in server mode to produce hundred of iamges a day that go to
> our Web sites. Simply doing the global replaces and testing the
> resulting PNG's would cost us a lot more than $475, if that's the price
> for a US governemnt institution (we usually pay higher prices). That of
> course, doesn't count the incoveneince for users whose Web browsers can
> handle animated GIFs, but not animated something else.

Why don't you just replace the "write_gif" routine with one that uses
write_png, then the ImageMagick routine "convert" to convert the png's
into gifs? You can have the code I use to do this if you like...

-W.

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		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: newt on Sun, 28 October 2001 14:28
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 28 October 2001 12:26
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: wmconnolley on Sun, 28 October 2001 09:14
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Joseph B. Gurman on Sat, 27 October 2001 21:39
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: A. D. & J.C. Cool on Sat, 27 October 2001 20:18
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Fri, 26 October 2001 12:20
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: Mark Hadfield on Thu, 25 October 2001 21:05
		Re: IDL 5.5 jpeg and tiff By: wmconnolley on Mon, 29 October 2001 08:08

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