Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4

[Craig Markwardt <craigmnet(at)cow.physics.wisc.edu>]

"Mark C." <mychan@petro-canada.ca> writes:

> Any suggestions on:
> 
> 1) Alternatives if one wants to create GIF files here after?
> 
> 2) Has any one use other formats in IDL which will yield equal or better
> quality results to that of GIF?

One possibility, on Unix, is to output some other format and use the
NetPBM tools to convert to GIF.  But that sucks.  I make loads of GIFs
for an internal web page, so it sucks a lot.  How is it that the
"premiere" image manipulation program can't do GIF?

I like Ed Santiago's suggestion of trying the old idl_gif DLMs to see
if they work.  Has anybody tried it?

Craig

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