writing in gif format

[Olivier Dagenais]

I do believe this is why the PNG file format was invented.  It supports true
color and alpha, too, as opposed to the 256-color GIF...

http://www.libpng.org

I'm new to Python, so I don't know, yet, if there are Python bindings for
it....

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


"Suchandra Thapa" <ssthapa at midway.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
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> Keith Murphy <kpmurphy at my-deja.com> wrote:
> >does anyone know how to write in gif format.  I am using the PhotoImage
> >class, not the Python Imaging Library.  Python tells me "TclError: image
> >file format "gif" has no file writing capability"
>
>     I believe that there are some patent issues involved in this.
> Unisys holds the patents for using LZW compression in gif files so
> you would need to pay Unisys royalties for makng apps that write gif
> files.
>
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