Re: NO MORE GIF READ OR WRITE IN IDL 5.4

["Mark Hadfield" <m.hadfield(at)niwa.cri.nz>]

"Med Bennett" <mbennett@indra.com> wrote in message
news:39F27A32.9A34E095@indra.com...
> PNG's work fine, they're just not widely recognized yet.  There are a
> bazillion viewers and utilities that translate from GIF <> PNG <>
everything
> else

And the one I recommend is ImageMagick

http://www.imagemagick.org/

The only thing that GIF has, and PNG doesn't, is support for animation.
However there are alternatives. There's PNG's cousin MNG

http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/

though it's still a bit immature and there's FLC, which doesn't have its own
WWW site but there's some good info at

http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/flc.html

I think RSI's decision to remove GIF support from RSI was the correct one in
the circumstances.

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Mark Hadfield
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National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research
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