Well, my attempts at loading in animated/multi-page GIFs has come to a stop.
Image:ParseGIF seems to create "invalid gifs" (but its last update was
1999 apparently!), DIBitmap doesnt handle them at all (due to it using
an earlier version of FreeImage), Imager::Files only supports native M$
file formats on win32 (and the extra libraries it requires to support
GIFs are a right pain to get running on win32... if it will work at
all), and GD can create animated GIFs but has no mention anywhere of how
to load them.
So I am stuck. Does anyone have any pointers to any perl code/modules
that will help me load animated/multi-page GIFs and extract the
individual images?
Steve
Robert May wrote:
That looks like a way to go for now. The FreeImage library (which
DIBitmap wraps) added support for multi-page GIF in version 3.7.0 -
Win32::GUI::DIBitmap currently wraps version 3.5.1.
I'd like to upgrade to FreeImage 3.9.1 (the latest) at some point, but
it's a significant amount of work ....
Regards,
Rob.
