
at least if it does satanic upwards loading due to filesize.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:31,
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If you find any of these people, call them retards.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:34,
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some company apparently owns the rights to it, so .png is the public domain alternative. not like anybody i know has ever gotten sued for using .gif
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:45,
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but as you say, I've never heard of anyone having any trouble using .gif. Nobody has ever asked me for royalties, that's for sure.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:50,
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I'll take your word for it.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:53,
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I was playing with Animator Pro, for MSDOS, because there was no (or I didn't know any) animation software for Windows 3.1 available at the time. And I barely had any pubes.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 5:06,
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openly allow the use of GIF wherever you need to, what they often object to is software developers using the source code within their products without seeking their permission. I don't know the legal ramification of why Compuserve do that but I know you can use GIF for animations and pictures without worry of breaking some laws.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 8:44,
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writing your own codec for GIF based on the specification is feasible, I had a go once.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 9:20,
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If you want solid blocks of colour, like in a cartoon or a block of text, .gif or .png is the way to go.
.gif tends to have lower filesizes than .png but it's much of a muchness.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:33,
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.gif tends to have lower filesizes than .png but it's much of a muchness.

obviously not for a final product (only sometimes) but it was somewhat intentional.
well i made it a jpg and got it under 100k.
thanks for the link to the optimisation site, i was looking for that.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:38,
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well i made it a jpg and got it under 100k.
thanks for the link to the optimisation site, i was looking for that.

i don't like the people on /talk.
anyway thanks.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:43,
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anyway thanks.

you're right.
/whew. updated. Apparently I was missing all kinds of stuff in there.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009, 4:46,
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/whew. updated. Apparently I was missing all kinds of stuff in there.