Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4 [message #22114 is a reply to message #22113] |
Sat, 21 October 2000 00:00  |
Med Bennett
Messages: 109 Registered: April 1997
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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, so I honestly don't see how Compuserve/Unisys ever hopes to enforce or
make any money off of the GIF/LZW patent. Kind of silly to me that they
even bother - why don't they just give it to the public domain, where it is
pretty much in practice anyway?
"Mark C." wrote:
> Any suggestions on:
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> 1) Alternatives if one wants to create GIF files here after?
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> 2) Has any one use other formats in IDL which will yield equal or better
> quality results to that of GIF?
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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