Re: remote .gif files
| From: | Hugh Bothwell | Date: | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:23:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: remote .gif files | ||
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"Anthony Ritter" <tony@gonefishingguideservice.com> wrote in message
news:20030410133844.31507.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
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> Is there any way to take a _.gif_ file from a remote URL( the destination
> source does not have their file in .png) and modify that file like I have
> done to the .jpg file?
A qualified yes: Unisys owns the patent on the LZW compression
scheme used by .gif files. They freely allow decompression, but
charge the authors of commercial programs that create gifs. For
this reason, the GD library used by PHP allows you to read gifs
but not to write them.