Shlomi Fish
Mon, 17 Sep 2001 06:11:45 -0700
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, guy keren wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Kohn Emil Dan wrote:
>
> > > 3. regarding the logo (tux-at-home.gif) - i wish to write 'Haifux' along
> > > [...]
> >
> > GIFs!?? As far as I know, GIF is proprietary format whose use requires
> > license from UNI$Y$. As a group promoting open-source and free software (I
> > think we are that, aren't we:-), we should not use it. PNG is a free
> > replacement of GIF. Does anybody know if all the popular (both broken and
> > less broken ;-) browsers support it?
>
> actually, i intended to generate a png, not a gif, but my gimp (one that
> comes with rh6.2) kept having a 'plugin crash' when i tried saving a png
> file, so i decided not to bother with it for now. this icon isn't final
> anyway.
>
One word for you: upgrade to gimp 1.2.2 (or is it 1.2.3 by now) and to
the newest libpng. You can try hunting the web for RPMs. In any case,
using GIMP 1.0.x is considered bad for your else. If all else fails, you
can use gif2png.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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