Re: remote .gif files
| From: | Hugh Bothwell | Date: | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 15:42:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: remote .gif files | ||
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"Anthony Ritter" <tony@gonefishingguideservice.com> wrote in message
news:20030411142245.70908.qmail@pb1.pair.com...
> 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.
>
> 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.
(shrug) why not read the .gif, edit it, then save as an 8-bit .png?
That shouldn't have any effect on file quality.