On Sun, 9 May 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
> In foo.debian-user, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 May 1999, Lawrence Wickline wrote:
> > > Also need something that will make .gifs (Gimp doesn't seem to do this)
> >
> > Haven't found one yet myself... I wouldn't mind a decent package... I'll
> > probably just wait until Wine gets better and run Paint Shop Pro...
>
> Gimp will support GIFs. The capability is just in a separate package for
> patent reasons. Install the "gimp-nonfree" package to get GIF and TIFF
> support.
I actually remembered this after I'd sent the message off, actually the
main reason I don't use gimp is because when I tried it I couldn't seem to
do the fine detail work I wanted to do, and also I couldn't place text
into the image (major lack there as far as web development is concerned!)
Regards,
Peter Ludwig
