For processing my genealogy images I use a program call Thumbs Plus ($79, available from http://www.cerious.com/). Apart from its superb archiving and search functions, it allows you to convert file formats - in my experience - from virtually anything into virtually anything. Put another way, I have not yet had an image file conversion problem that T+ cannot handle. In particular, when you save an image as JPG it lets you determine the degree of data loss which you will accept in the compression process. Very much to be recommended. I have no financial interest or involvement whatsoever in Cerious (apart from the $79 I paid for the software).. Paddy
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barbara Handley Sent: 08 July 2003 18:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] GIF License At 09:27 AM 7/8/03 -0700, you wrote: >Not to mention, GIF is really not very good for pictures (8 bit color). I'm not in love with gifs, but the Oxley Family web site has images of original wills from the 1700s and they've put them all up as gifs. When I tried to pull them into Legacy as pictures, it wouldn't let me. I can convert them, but not to jpegs. Jpeg is a very lossy format and these are old documents with nearly illegible handwriting. I'm sure this is the reason that gif was used in the first place. Legacy obviously already supports gif or I wouldn't have gotten a pop-up asking me to pay a licensing fee. I don't think I should have to pay it since the patent expired (I'm in the U.S.) and I just wanted to know what the plans are for discontinuing the fee and altering Legacy so that it displays gifs instead of the fee request. There are good reasons for using Gifs. Any other format I convert those images to, that will maintain the high resolution, is going to result in much larger image files. Barbara Handley Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
