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[Capman]

Does anybody know of a free program for creating animated gif's (I don't like paying if I don't have to).

I have looked on the "Pinned:Freeware" page, but nobody has listed any yet.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[TuPLaD]

I dont know any good soft for making animated GIF's, but this could be a good start:

http://www.google.be/search?hl=nl&q=Animat...le+zoeken&meta=

[Capman]

Thanks TuPLaD, I did not expect anyone to do a search for me, I was hoping someone would already have and be using one that they could recommend.
Once again thanks for your time.

[DjLizard]

Most of the stuff I can recommend is commercial software...
Animated GIF construction hasn't hit open source yet (the GIF patent expired just recently (2003), which was the original hold-up) -- and now that it's expired, it doesn't matter, because GIF sucks and is an archaic format with no extensibility.

See also http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for a tip of the iceberg of reasons that GIF is evil.
also http://burnallgifs.org/
http://www.kuro5hin....6/19/35919/4079

MNG is the preferred format, as it is open (as its brother PNG) and is based on the vastly superior PNG format.

As for programs, I still can't recommend anything, because again, most animation studio programs are commercial. I'd have to recommend Adobe Imageready and Paint Shop Pro's Animation Studio, on the commercial side.

[Capman]

Thanks DjLizard, maybe I should have a rethink.
Perhaps I am a bit archaic.

[Capman]

Hey Dj

Read the pages that you posted the links to, and decided to go with the MNG image filetype, only thing is after browsing around for a while I found some pages containing MNG images which would not actually appear.
I was browsing with IE at the time, would these images have appeared if I was using another browser.
I do, however need a format that works well in all browsers.

BTW I should probably have edited my last post on this subject rather than make a new post, but am still not too clued up on forum rules, this is the first forum I have ever joined and posted to, please bear with me until I get the hang of it.

[DjLizard]

Unfortunately, IE is a piece of crap. IE [currently] doesn't fully support PNG, and will probably not support MNG in the future, because Microsoft is dumb. I guess if you really want to do compatible web animation, you're stuck with awful GIF, or commercial Macromedia Shockwave and Flash.

MNG-supporting browsers

[peter03102]

unfreez (simple - make gifs same size) at
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

also openoffice (more invovled - look in help) can do it at
http://www.openoffice.org/

[Cursedbythegods]

I think i posted Gimp, you can make animated GIFS in it as well as many other formats. Read a tut though.

[Capman]

Thanks Peter I forgot about unfreez, and I already have that on my computer from ages ago.

Thanks Cursedbythegods, I guess it could be time for me to get gimp to see what else it can do for me.

[Eldmannen]

DjLizard, on May 31 2005, 10:44 PM, said:

Most of the stuff I can recommend is commercial software...
Animated GIF construction hasn't hit open source yet (the GIF patent expired just recently (2003), which was the original hold-up) -- and now that it's expired, it doesn't matter, because GIF sucks and is an archaic format with no extensibility.

See also http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html for a tip of the iceberg of reasons that GIF is evil.
also http://burnallgifs.org/
http://www.kuro5hin....6/19/35919/4079

MNG is the preferred format, as it is open (as its brother PNG) and is based on the vastly superior PNG format.

As for programs, I still can't recommend anything, because again, most animation studio programs are commercial.  I'd have to recommend Adobe Imageready and Paint Shop Pro's Animation Studio, on the commercial side.

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I agree 100% with DjLizard.

[Eldmannen]

You probably should avoid using the .gif format as much as possible.
And as for animated graphics its often considered very annoying.