Re: GIF license policy

2000-03-02 Thread Michael Schumacher 

Am Thu, 2 Mar 2000 schrieb Hubert Froehlich:

 AFAIK, any software *producing* GIF images (such as  Photoshop and all
 that stuff) has to pay license fees to Compuserve. The software user,
 then , has got the right to produce ANY amount of images.
 
 My question now:
 
 a) Is this information correct?
 
 b) what about GIMP? How is the license policy concerning GIMP? To be
 concrete: We want to produce really HUGE AMOUNTS of GIF ( GIF 89a , to
 be precise, NOT the OLD GIF87a ) pictures NOT AT ALL FOR PRIVATE USE and
 don't want ot get any license trouble ...

 c) If we need any extra license: where to get it and what does it cost?

a) and c) : Take a look at http://burnallgifs.org/

b) You can't use gimp to produce gifs if you don't live in a country where
   the LZW patent doesn't matter.

Michael

Re: projection on a sphere ??

2000-01-14 Thread Michael Schumacher 

Am Fri, 14 Jan 2000 schrieb Christian Wenz:

 hello to all gimp-user,
 
 i am new to this mailinglist and i hope that this is the rigth list for
 my question.
 i like to project a picture on a sphere. which plug-in can make this job
 ???

Try Filters-Map-Map Object

HTH,
Michael

Re: Howto ...

2000-01-10 Thread Michael Schumacher 

Am Mon, 10 Jan 2000 schrieb David Comeau:

 How does one get the pagecurl filter to work?
 Must it be a specific file format? I tried it with jpeg, png and gif. With all
 of them, the pagecurl choice is greyed out.

The image needs an alpha channel.

HTH,
Michael