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.gif support // WishlistferruccioJan 26, 2004, 4:30am
The patent for the .gif expired, so AW doesn't have to worry about paying
royalties for .gif support anymore. How about adding the feature? I know this has been posted before, but that was months ago, I just wanted to bump it because it seems like a modest request that has been ignored :P The last time AWI commented about not having .gif support was because of the need to pay royalties. Now, they don't have to pay it anymore. c pJan 26, 2004, 5:38pm
send it to the feature vote list, this ng is for refining purposes only, awi
barely reads it [View Quote] tart sugarJan 26, 2004, 6:32pm
Actually, yes, they do read the NGs. Why do you think Uncle ENZO deleted 2
of them? They also read AWGossip, and when something is posted that AWI doesn't like, AWI asks the host to ban the forum. grrrrrr Tart Sugar [View Quote] c pJan 27, 2004, 2:32am
no the monitor al of the ngs, im speaking specifically of this one ng, they
monitor, looking for Enzo please deletes, this specific ng is what I was talking about, it is used for refining ideas for submission, read the awi site. I was trying to help, and its not a hard thing just boom click submit [View Quote] starfleetJan 27, 2004, 2:44am
..png support would be more helpful. I don't think you can do as much with a
256-color gif image. [View Quote] codewarriorJan 27, 2004, 4:34am
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Woot!
But .gif is pretty easy to support. Someone can code it while they read the intro to the PNG spec. And it supports a transparency pallette index, which is kind of equivalent to a one bit mask, and you wouldn't say that single bit masks are not useful. ..tga is pretty easy too and it has alpha channels Whatever they do, I hope they figure out a way to use the magic to identify what format the file is and make it so we don't have to keep filling in the right file extension. |