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From: djb1@ukc.ac.uk (David Beckett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: GIF viewing again and again
Keywords: GIF, graphics, IFF, conversion
Message-ID: <5338@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Aug 90 13:13:18 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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I have just discovered the world of the GIF. The graphic standard that allows
you to send pictures all over the world. I thought, there must be a decent
Amiga program that converts from it. And yes, there were several so I tried
them and they failed/died/ran out of memory. I want to convert large/small
colour and b/w pictures into ILBM/HAM form. As an example, I tried converting
an 1152x9?? bw standard picture. Some of the programs took 30 minutes, some
worked fast, but nearly all of them produced a tiny 640x400 picture - yuk.
Have they never heard of overscan? I tried a smaller color picture and boom -
out of memory.

	Does anyone have a decent GIF --> ILBM/HAM converted that WORKS
	and preferably does the following:

	* Converts to overscan pictures and ALLOWS YOU TO SAVE THEM!

	* Converts to HAM pictures, when there are too many colours

	* WORKS!

Programs that I have tried and gave up on are:

	HAMGIF
	GIFTOIFF
	GIF2IFF
	GIFMachine
	GIFFY
	VirtGIF		(Best of the lot but slow and no save)

Any help would be *most* welcome

Dave

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David Beckett                                           | djb1@ukc.ac.uk
Computing Lab., University of Kent, Canterbury,Kent,UK  | ..!mcsun!ukc!djb1