Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Doug MacFarlane
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:42, Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make > > a really nice slide show, and exported it to html. > > > > It works great. > > > > Except that the

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Alan Shutko
Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The patent's expired now... In the US. Not everywhere. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. Disease is the retribution of an outraged nature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 09:27:40PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I'm sorry to say, the code to create the compressed .gifs is patented and we > > had to disable it. I wasn't actually aware that Impress has the option to > > create GIFs for export, although I won't have time to look at disabling it > >

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make > a really nice slide show, and exported it to html. > > It works great. > > Except that the slide control buttons, a series of .gif's, are messed up > som

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:40:19PM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I don't know what version of OOo you're using, but on 1.1rc I get the option to > > export the graphics as JPG, which should be better quality and should > > actually work. > > There is an option for creating jpg's when you expor

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The patent's expired now... > > In the US. Not everywhere. Oh, bugger. I found out from a post on another list which just said "Free GIF for everyone!" The list was Australian, so I thought i

Re: gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:42:45PM +0200, Chris Halls wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:54:59AM -0500, Doug MacFarlane wrote: > > I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make > > a really nice slide show, and exported it to html. > > > > It works great. > > > > Exc

gif's, the Gimp, various viewers, and Impress

2003-08-14 Thread Doug MacFarlane
Team: I used OpenOffice.org's Impress (a power-point-like application) to make a really nice slide show, and exported it to html. It works great. Except that the slide control buttons, a series of .gif's, are messed up somehow. Or my computer is messed up somehow. At any rate, the .gif's do