| From: | Jan-Erik Karlsson |
| Date: | 10 May 2001 at 21:23:22 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga Active- things to do! |
Hello, Neil
On 10-May-01, you wrote:
NB > Alan Buxey said,
NB >
NB >>> What's wrong with GIFs and JPEGs? As long as you have a suitable
NB >>> datatype, Birdie will use any bitmap file format.
NB >
NB >> whilst theres the licence issue -
NB >
NB > Doesn't the licence issue only apply to creating GIFs? Rewading thewm
NB > is OK.
Nope, the only limitation is with the compression scheme you can make GIF's
without compression
and this is not covered by the patent (obviously since it doesn't use the
lzw compression code)
this is how IJG has handled it. it can write uncompressed GIF's but not
compressed, it can read
both uncompressed and compressed GIF's
NB >> and no good free datatypes for GIF
NB >
NB > The version 43.18 datatype I use never gives any problems.
neither does WarpGIF :-) and it handles animations (sort of)
With kind regards,
Jan-Erik Karlsson
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