Re: remote .gif files

Hugh Bothwell wrote: > 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. .......................... Oh. Well, money's tight...and I didn't expect to pay Unisys for the right to write to .gif files. I'm trying to appropriate a .gif file in a remote URL,open, read and write that data to my own .gif - or any other file for that matter - file for output. I'm able to do this with a remote .jpg file. Any steps will be greatly appreciated since the destination file will not change from .gif to either .png or .jpg. Thank you. Tony Ritter