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From: | Jason Clouse |
Subject: | Re: libjpeg/libpng-based image loading |
Date: | Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:44:21 -0500 |
Stefan,The problem I see with this is that you have no control over whether or not a GIF that is on any particular website is actually compressed or not. Therefore, if I'm understanding libungif correctly, it will fail to decode any LZW-compressed GIF on any given webpage.If your favorite format isn't in this list, now would be a good time toI started writing a loader for gifs this weekend and think i can make it working this weekend. it is based on libungif. The documentations states that libungif cannot be used to create compressed gif images (this would require usingwrite a loader for it. :)the lzw patent), so i think we do not have any patent issues here.
I think libungif will read LZW-compressed files. What it doesn't do is ENcode them with LZW. It uses some other algorithm for writing. It's based on ESRs libgif package, BTW.
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