On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 02:12:49 -0500 Chris I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 01:46, Collins wrote: > > I don't see any way to get gimp to create a gif file. The option is > > there but greyed out. I've tried emerging gimp with USE="gif" but > > that does no good. Looking at the ebuilds, I don't even see gif in > > the IUSE list. > > > > Any ideas. > > You need to change the image type to indexed, then all the indexed > file formats will be selectable. > > A bit easier is to change the type to (cant remember exact wording) > "by extension" and type "filename.gif" as the name. In that case, it > will prompt you to index it to export as a gif. > Thanks to Ernie & Chris, works like a champ. BTW, the patent restrictions regarding gif format have now been relieved, so there should be no such restrictions in intermingling this with other free software. Not that, png etc. are not better choices for storing images, but some software will only support gif. -- Collins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
