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Re: Animated GIF in IDL [message #31862 is a reply to message #31860]

Tue, 20 August 2002 20:22

rmw092001
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Craig Markwardt <craigmnet@cow.physics.wisc.edu> wrote in message news:<onbs7x17s1.fsf@cow.physics.wisc.edu>...
> dunia77@yahoo.com (Kasia Mikurda) writes:
>
>>
>> does somebody know how to make an animated GIF in IDL ?
>> or maybe you have any suggestions about the freeware progs (Unix or
>> Windows) that can help me ?
>
> The question is how do you make *any* GIFs in IDL? Older version of
> IDL are able to make GIFs, and animated GIFs are documented in
> WRITE_GIF.
>
> If you have some older versions of IDL lying around, then it may be
> possible to take the GIF dlm from the old version and copy it to your
> new version directory, and then be able to use it. The only way to
> find out is to try it.
>
> If it is something you are willing to pay for, I believe that RSI
> offers a GIF licensing option.
>
> Good luck,
> Craig

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.

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