Thus spake Clayton Coleman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm sure this has been asked a lot, but is there any way to get gif support > for the Gimp? I currently do a lot of web development, and hope to switch > to all-linux. My main issue right now is of course, no gif support. > Currently browsers do not support PNG widely enough to use PNG instead. I > am not above paying for a gif liscense, I just can't find any documentation > on how to get gif support included. > I'm running RH8 Psyche, which came with the latest version of the Gimp. > Read this thread: http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/lists/gimp-user/2002-July/004786.html just in case it is that easy. I think these days most systems come with gif support, and gif in gimp should "just work."
I use gimp on gentoo, I have gif support. Everything is compiled from scratch for me, and I have gif in my USE flags, so if something has gif support it will be compiled in. You may have to install libgif or libungif and then compile gimp from source. Also, I think you are dead wrong about PNG support. What browsers don't support them properly? I use konqueror, mozilla, phoenix and Opera and I seem to have decent PNG support with alpha in most of these, since about 2000. Is netscape 4.x holding you back? If so, good luck waiting for that to change. Oh, wait when you wrote "Currently browsers do not support PNG widely enough to use PNG instead" you might have meant "Currently Internet Explorer on Windows..." in which you are correct. But guess what? If the net is full of alpha-transparent png files, IE will change quickly enough. They haven't implemented this standard YET because everyone is so quick to bow to their unholy monopoly. So why does IE on Mac have perfect support for png alpha channel and gamma adjustment? -- Joshua Thorin Messer Web Development in PHP/MySQL on Gentoo GNU/Linux Linux User #254463 http://turtleneck.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ironmantis.com GnuPG Key: http://ironmantis.com/~messer/gpgkey.asc _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
