Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4

[Med Bennett <mbennett(at)indra.com>]

IrfanView is also very good and is completely free:  http://www.irfanview.com.

Mark Hadfield wrote:

> "Med Bennett" <mbennett@indra.com> wrote in message
> news:39F27A32.9A34E095@indra.com...
> > PNG's work fine, they're just not widely recognized yet.  There are a
> > bazillion viewers and utilities that translate from GIF <> PNG <>
> everything
> > else
>
> And the one I recommend is ImageMagick
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/
>
> The only thing that GIF has, and PNG doesn't, is support for animation.
> However there are alternatives. There's PNG's cousin MNG
>
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/
>
> though it's still a bit immature and there's FLC, which doesn't have its own
> WWW site but there's some good info at
>
> http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/flc.html
>
> I think RSI's decision to remove GIF support from RSI was the correct one in
> the circumstances.
>
> ---
> Mark Hadfield
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