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From: roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is there a GIF picture editor?
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Date: 20 Sep 90 03:25:38 GMT
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In comp.windows.x, luis@postgres.berkeley.edu (Luis Miguel) writes:

> Is there a program out there that would allow me
> to "cut off" parts of a gif picture?

The brute force, low level method is to use the FBM or PPM utilities.
These allow extracting areas of the image.

They also keep all colors in tact, which is sometimes tricky when editing a
256 color image on a 256 color display.

Roger Petersen