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Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 [message #22092 is a reply to message #22087]

Mon, 23 October 2000 14:03

Mark Hadfield
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Registered: May 1995

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"Med Bennett" <mbennett@indra.com> wrote in message
news:39F27A32.9A34E095@indra.com...
> PNG's work fine, they're just not widely recognized yet. There are a
> bazillion viewers and utilities that translate from GIF <> PNG <>
everything
> else

And the one I recommend is ImageMagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/

The only thing that GIF has, and PNG doesn't, is support for animation.
However there are alternatives. There's PNG's cousin MNG

http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

though it's still a bit immature and there's FLC, which doesn't have its own
WWW site but there's some good info at

http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/flc.html

I think RSI's decision to remove GIF support from RSI was the correct one in
the circumstances.

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Mark Hadfield
m.hadfield@niwa.cri.nz http://katipo.niwa.cri.nz/~hadfield/
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
PO Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand

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		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: George N. White III on Tue, 24 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Glenn Randers-Pehrson on Tue, 24 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: R.Bauer on Mon, 23 October 2000 22:48
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 23 October 2000 14:03
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Med Bennett on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: noymer on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Paul Woodford on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Paul Woodford on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Craig Markwardt on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Med Bennett on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Ed Santiago on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Nick Bower on Mon, 23 October 2000 00:00
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		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: noymer on Sat, 21 October 2000 20:55
		Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 By: Med Bennett on Sat, 21 October 2000 00:00

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