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From: jmueller@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Jim Mueller)
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Subject: Re: .gif files
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Date: 22 Jun 91 22:19:39 GMT
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In article <17328@darkstar.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>	I'm not trying to knock SuperConvert, but if you don't want to wait
>EONS for your GIF files to be shown, get Jonah Stitch's GIF3200 or 
>wait {hopefully not long --TODD?} for LordHighGiffer.

	I tend to think Jonah's program is a bit slow without an accelerator
(for a decent convert). I hear there is an accessory disk which you use with
SuperConvert which speeds up the conversion and/or has better color
optimization. These may not necesarily be written by Jason Harper. Another
good program to use (judging by the results) is a program called Prizm.

>	Both are HELLA fast, and I would say they come close to being as
>fast as IBM or Mac GIF viewers. They have varying qualities to select from
>to convert with, and obviously the higher quality the less time, but
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 	I think you may have use the wrong terms here...I believe what you 
intended to state was that "the higher the quality the more time"...

>(note I've never seen SuperConvert, but Jason Harper told me that he had no
>intentions of speeding GIF conversion up from SHRConvert, the shareware
>predecessor)

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