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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: GIF animations in Kpresenter
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-03-14 18:18:23
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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.
> 
This is not about GIF, but about animations. And there are
GIFs without LZW - they are just unused :)

Greetings, Stephan

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