GIF LZW Patent Expires

StarHawk · Post by **StarHawk** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:06 am

The expiration of the patents which caused so much debate (at midnight US Eastern Standard Time on June 19, 2003 for the US patent, and midnight local time on June 18 and 19, 2004 for the European and Japanese counterparts, respectively).

Type 'GIF patent expires' into search engines to verify.

Will Purebasic allow for native support of .GIF soon?

TronDoc · Post by **TronDoc** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 9:53 am

StarHawk wrote:Will Purebasic allow for native support of .GIF ....?

I would appreciate that.
--jb

Post by **Fred** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 11:56 am

The patent has expired in the United States, however it is still valid outside of the U.S. for at least another year. One benefit already realized by this is that PHP will again support GIF format.

BTW: I have already tell I don't like GIF ?

StarHawk · Post by **StarHawk** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 3:56 pm

Fred wrote: BTW: I have already tell I don't like GIF ?

Sometimes it's not always about you.

Post by **Fred** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 4:06 pm

Wrong. It's always about me

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:36 pm

fsw · Post by **fsw** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:38 pm

StarHawk wrote:
Fred wrote: BTW: I have already tell I don't like GIF ?
Sometimes it's not always about you.

@StarHawk
don't know if you are aware of it, but Fred is the most powerful PureBasic user around here 8O

Watch your back man

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:40 pm

Does anybody have a link to the file format of .gif

I'm too lazy to do a google search ...

Balatro · Post by **Balatro** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:29 pm

Codemonger: check out http://www.wotsit.org -- it has *tons* of documents on file formats including graphics files, documents, archive files etc. Should be in every programmer's link archive!

~ B

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:43 pm

OOOhHH!

That is an excellent link ... don't think I will forget this one. thanks Balatro

Balatro · Post by **Balatro** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:46 pm

*tips hat*

You're welcome!

~ B

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 6:58 pm

I use GIF in my programs for two reasons.

1.) Photoshop 7 does not support PNGs.
2.) I do not like wasting space (BMP) and poor quality (JPG)
3.) I prefer to keep my downloads and diskspace as low as possible.
4.) The 256 color limit doesnt bother me, because my cards still look good in that format, Examples found @ http://www.realmsofconflict.com/Solar_Flare.gif , http://www.realmsofconflict.com/Earth_Slide.gif , http://www.realmsofconflict.com/Tornado.gif

5.) I guess I have to use some third party library in order to keep using PB

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:10 pm

1.) Photoshop 7 does not support PNGs.

Photoshop supports PNG's put apparently it's a little buggy or something ?

Shannara · Post by **Shannara** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:15 pm

I bought PS7 at a local store (Juneau Electronics). It has no option to save nor load PNGs.

Codemonger · Post by **Codemonger** » Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:25 pm

I use Corel products for imaging, but you should try

save as web

and maybe an import command ? to load png's

or something like that in the file menu ... I used to use photoshop ...
the save command is only for proprietary formats that adobe has created.

Hope this helps.

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