> [Gerhard] > ... is that you Juergen? Nice try. Careful image analysis produced this: http://www.onegoodwindow.com/gerhard.jpg Saucy, baby! Who *does* your hair? > It's a GIF, but is it UNISYS licensed? ;) > Juergen It turns out LZW is a superset of RLE, so it doesn't have to be. Anything that can read a GIF can read an 'unlicensed' GIF ... but the compression is weak. > [Paul Hardy] > Have I missed something here? And if people are creating GIFs without > the compression, what tool are they using? these server-based image tools support LZW-less GIF: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/web.html http://www.websupergoo.com/aboutgif.htm http://www.quadbase.com/EspressChart/ http://www.corda.com/products/comparison.cfm -chris -- ___________________________________________________________ Brevity is wit. - W.S. www.onegoodwindow.comReceived on Fri Mar 1 11:28:48 2002
