Chris comments: | Ooh, I like this one better. I imagine it's what you use in | tune-finder, am I right? It give a nice compact image (unlike convert, | which makes too much whitespace), and quite small files as well (reduced | by about a factor of 10).
Yup; I just copied my script verbatim. It doesn't produce much of a white border at all. You've probably found that the "resolution" arg controls the size of the image. | These should get me started with my project quite nicely. One thing you might start to worry about: There has been more discussion lately on some other lists about the fact that GIF is a proprietary, patented format, and the owner (apparently now Compuserve) has been making noises about collecting royalties. When this happens every year or so, it persuades more people to switch to PNG, which is very similar to GIF in most respects (and typically about 20% smaller), but is a public standard. Reading GIF files and displaying them is legal, but if you generate them without a license, you are violating the patent. So far the patent owners have always backed off on this threat, but who knows what they'll do next month? This isn't a really big deal, though. Most software that uses GIF will also accept PNG, and it's easy to convert (or use both) when the need arises. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
