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Re: Animated GIF in IDL [message #31840 is a reply to message #31839]

Wed, 21 August 2002 14:07

Mark Hadfield
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"RichardW" <rmw092001@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9f4a7077.0208201922.4749ea3f@posting.google.com...

> Imagemagick ( www.imagemagick.org ) can make animated GIFs and it's
> freeware, works on unix and windows. You could write bitmap files
> using WRITE_BMP in IDL, then SPAWN a command to imagemagick,
> converting them into an animated GIF.

Yes, but in recent versions of Imagemagick, GIF compression has been
disabled by default (for the same reasons as in IDL), so it produces
uncompressed GIFs. To get GIF compression with a recent version of IM,
you will need to rebuild it appropriately.

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		Re: Animated GIF in IDL By: Dan Blair on Wed, 21 August 2002 20:57
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		Re: Animated GIF in IDL By: Timm Weitkamp on Wed, 21 August 2002 00:52
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