On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 19:43, Robert G.Waycott wrote: > ============================================================ > From: Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/01/04 Sun AM 09:17:40 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gimp and gif files > > Collins, > My ".gif" is greyed out in the pull down list too but I can save a > file as a gif by selecting "save by extension" and naming the file > xxx.gif. I can then successfully open that file. I'm not sure why > this happens but it may have something to do with the gif format and > the GPL. I seem to remember some patent cruft a while back. > ============================================================ > > There is definitely patent/copyright issues. I think they expire sometime in 2004? > Either way, there can be no open-source program that creates gifs ... somehow this > is the way thing are ... > > Neuros. > > I offer no warranty with this advice. > > --***-- > 'Esse quam videri.' > To be, rather than to appear.
That's simply not true. The problem isn't with the gif format, but rather the lwz compression that is commonly used in conjunction with the gif format. Depending on what country you're in, you can legally use the gif libraries with lwz compression. To that end, you can either emerge giflib (with lwz) or emerge libungif (without lwz) If you then compile gimp again, it should pickup gif support from either of these libraries when the configure script runs. I have the 1.3.23 version of gimp installed, and I have gif support, as I had one of these libraries installed before I compiled the gimp. Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
