Steve Loughran wrote:
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?
It's many years since I played with ImageMagick, but it may do what you
need. Find info about the Perl wrapper at
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php
I can see version 6.2.8 of Image::Magick in ActiveState's ppm repository.
I can't immediately see anything that says it reads animated GIFs, but
would be surprised if it doesn't.
Rob.
