Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!SABER.COM!jimf
From: jimf@SABER.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Displaying GIF pictures under X windows
Message-ID: <9011272103.AA28540@test4>
Date: 27 Nov 90 21:03:28 GMT
Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background)
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|There are at least two tools to  achieve this goal:  Try xloadimage or
|xgif  (now  xv).   They   should  be   available  at  any  archive  of
|comp.sources.x. xv is being posted two months ago, xloadimage nearly 5
|months ago.

Xloadimage does not yet support 89a, only 87a.  I haven't had time to
try adding support for 89a (probably won't have time in the near
future unless someone does it for me).

|P.S.: I'd prefer xloadimage. It can display  much more graphic formats
|than  just gif89a. xv also can  more than just  gif, but xloadimage is
|faster, does dithering  on  monochrome monitors, can set X-background,
|can do any combination of multiple pictures into one, etc.

Thanks for the plug :-).  Some minor changes have improved display
speed for most image types dramatically for the upcoming 2.02 release,
so you'll be even happier.

Happy hacking,

jim frost
saber software
jimf@saber.com