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Jan 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.

Jan 26, 2004, 5:38pm

send it to the feature vote list, this ng is for refining purposes only, awi
barely reads it
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Jan 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

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Jan 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
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Jan 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.

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Jan 27, 2004, 4:34am

[View Quote] 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.

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