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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Re(2): GIF animations in Kpresenter
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2001-03-14 17:01:47
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On Wednesday 14 March 2001 16:50, Andrew Marlow wrote:
> koffice@master.kde.org,Internet writes:
> >On Wednesday 14 March 2001 05:00, tal alexander wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Is it possible to insert GIF animations in
> >> Kpresenter v1.0 (or any other animation format 
> >> for that matter)? 
> Don't do it. Unisys owns the patent to the LZW
> compression algorithm that is used to
> produce GIFs. Therefore Open Source s/w
> cannot create GIFs and be patent-free.
> This is why Open Source is dropping support
> for GIFs. PNGs are the GIF replacement when
> the image is not animated. The animated
> version is still being worked on.

... and is called MNG, and is supported by Qt (if libmng is present).
The missing feature in kpresenter is the same in both cases,
it should simply use QMovie and Qt takes care of pumping the GIF
or the MNG into it.
 

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