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Topic: GIF

	AMC GIF Construction Set Professional
		GIF Construction Set Professional represents the state of the art in GIF animation software.
		GIF Construction Set Professional has received numerous top ratings and awards.
		Extend GIF Construction Set even further with optional animation plugins.
	www.mindworkshop.com /alchemy/gifcon.html (564 words)

	GRAPHICS: GIF files
		GIF files incorporate a compression scheme to keep file sizes at a minimum, and they are limited to 8-bit (256 or fewer colors) color palettes.
		The strategy is to reduce the number of colors in your GIF image to the minimum number necessary and to remove stray colors that are not required to represent the image.
		GIF animations are rarely used in a meaningful way, and generally distract readers from the main content of the page.
	www.webstyleguide.com /graphics/gifs.html (923 words)

	The GIF file format (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GIF is a file format that should not really be used for prepress, it is far more suited for web design or to exchange images through e-mail or newsgroups.
		A GIF image can contain 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 colours which are stored in a colour palette or colour table within the image file.
		GIF supports LZW compression, which is a lossless compression algorithms that is also used frequently in prepress (TIFF images are often compressed using LZW).
	www.prepressure.com /formats/gif/fileformat.htm (788 words)

	Governance Interoperability Framework (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GIF enables and simplifies governance, compliance and policy-driven solutions for an enterprise SOA.
		GIF provides transparency and visibility into all aspects of an enterprise SOA, offering managers, developers and architects a simple view of all functional and non-functional information related to a business service.
		Through the GIF technology, partners have the ability to publish services and associated policies to the BSR in a standardized way, to be alerted on changes within the BSR, and have access to metadata about the range of services that make up the customer’s SOA.
	www.systinet.com /products/gif/overview (460 words)

	Preparing Graphics for The Web - GIF File Format (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although the GIF specification allows for 2-color GIFs to consist of any two colors, I have been unsuccessful in creating 2-color GIFs which contain anything other than fl and white using the software at my disposal.
		Each color in the GIF color table is described in terms of Red, Green and Blue (RGB) values, with each value having a range of 0 to 255.
		Therefore, like the JPEG format, the GIF format has access to over 16.8 million colors, yet a maximum of 256 colors out of a possible 16.8 million can be referenced within a single GIF image.
	www.dsdesign.com /articles/gif.htm (2470 words)

	The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective (lzw.info)
		GIF is not alone in the use of LZW.
		Possibly in part as a reaction to commercial developers splitting GIF code from their commercial applications and making available the GIF code through free distribution channels, Unisys later clarified that commercial developers in general would be subject to the minimum royalty ($0.10) even on software distributed for free.
		As for the renewed proposal to "burn all GIFs" and replace them with a format such as PNG, that is not yet completely possible, because PNG does not support animation, which is widely used with GIF.
	www.cloanto.com /users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html (4892 words)

	GIF Image File Format
		GIF was a great match for the old 8 bit 256 color video boards, but is inappropriate for today's 24 bit photo images.
		If GIF is used for continuous tone photo images, the limited color can be poor, and the 256 color file is quite large as compared to JPG compression, even though it is 8 bit data instead of 24 bits.
		GIF optionally offers transparent backgrounds, where one palette color is declared transparent, so that the background can show through it.
	www.scantips.com /basics9g.html (729 words)

	GRAPHICS: GIF files
		GIF files incorporate a compression scheme to keep file sizes at a minimum, and they are limited to 8-bit (256 or fewer colors) color palettes.
		The strategy is to reduce the number of colors in your GIF image to the minimum number necessary and to remove stray colors that are not required to represent the image.
		GIF animations are rarely used in a meaningful way, and generally distract readers from the main content of the page.
	webstyleguide.com /graphics/gifs.html (923 words)

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		GIF EXTENSION BLOCKS To provide for orderly extension of the GIF definition, a mechanism for defining the packaging of extensions within a GIF data stream is necessary.
		GIF Extension Blocks are packaged in a manner similar to that used by the raster data though not compressed.
		GIF CAPABILITIES ENQUIRY The GCE sequence is issued from a host and requests an interactive GIF decoder to return a response message that defines the graphics parameters for the decoder.
	www.w3.org /Graphics/GIF/spec-gif87.txt (3680 words)

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		The GIF Data Stream must be interpreted in context, that is, the application program must rely on information external to the Data Stream to invoke the decoder process.
		The GIF capabilities dialogue makes the provision for the receiver to request the transmission of all blocks; the default state in this regard is no transmission of Special purpose blocks.
		GIF CAPABILITIES ENQUIRY The GIF Capabilities Enquiry sequence is issued from a host and requests an interactive GIF decoder to return a response message that defines the graphics parameters for the decoder.
	www.w3.org /Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt (9007 words)

	DaubNET: File Formats Collection: GIF
		GIF was invented by Compuserve for their online service, but the specifications were made publicly available.
		There is a very small possibility for a GIF file written by a LZW encoder to actually look the same as with the non LZW version.
		GIF and 'Graphics Interchange Format' are trademarks of CompuServe Inc. They have made the format publicly available without royalties or licensing restrictions.
	www.daubnet.com /formats/GIF.html (1634 words)

	What is GIF? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
		It also includes data compression, but because it is limited to 256 colors, it is more effective for scanned images such as illustrations rather than color photos.
		Also see JPG vs. GIF vs. PNG in the Did You Know.
		Also overviewed are the different things you can do with GIF images including creating transparent sections, animations and interlacing.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/G/GIF.html (225 words)

	Making Animated GIFs (part 1 of 3)
		It you are using GIF Construction Set or another GIF assembly program, you may be able to save your animations into any format and import them when you insert the images into the final GIF.
		The positioning of the images inside the GIF file is off by one pixel down and one pixel right.
		DTA would be very useful for GIF animations because it can read a directory full of GIF files, calculate a single, optimized color palette, and then re-write the GIF files with the new, optimized palette - a big time saver.
	members.aol.com /royalef/gifmake.htm (1806 words)

	GIF: Graphics Interchange Format(sm)
		In general, the graphics in a Data Stream are assumed to be related to some degree, and to share some control information; it is recommended that encoders attempt to group together related graphics in order to minimize hardware changes during processing and to minimize control information overhead.
		In that case, the decoder may use a color table with as many colors as its hardware is able to support; it is recommended that such a table have fl and white as its first two entries, so that monochrome images can be rendered adequately.
		The GIF Capabilities Enquiry sequence is issued from a host and requests an interactive GIF decoder to return a response message that defines the graphics parameters for the decoder.
	tronche.com /computer-graphics/gif/gif89a.html (8600 words)

	The GIF Controversy: A Software Developer's Perspective (lzw.info)
		GIF is not alone in the use of LZW.
		Possibly in part as a reaction to commercial developers splitting GIF code from their commercial applications and making available the GIF code through free distribution channels, Unisys later clarified that commercial developers in general would be subject to the minimum royalty ($0.10) even on software distributed for free.
		As for the renewed proposal to "burn all GIFs" and replace them with a format such as PNG, that is not yet completely possible, because PNG does not support animation, which is widely used with GIF.
	cloanto.com /users/mcb/19950127giflzw.html (4892 words)

	Reference Guide: Graphics Technical Options and Decisions
		GIF is the right format for images that are composed primarily of lines and solid blocks of color.
		A GIF image's color palette is limited to a maximum of 256 colors.
		The images on the left are all the same transparent GIF, repeated nine times in a table, with each table cell set to a different background color.
	www.devx.com /projectcool/Article/19997/0/page/2 (463 words)

	CompuServe GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) image file format
		In the description of GIF's file structure it was explained how more than one image can be stored in a GIF file.
		The first image in the GIF file stores pixels from the source truecolor image (from top to bottom, left to right within each row) until a 257th color would be required.
		There is GIF optimization software available that is specialized on creating small GIF files for websites.
	schmidt.devlib.org /file-formats/gif-image-file-format.html (1145 words)

	What is GIF? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Graphics Interchange Format
		In practice, Unisys has not required users of GIF images to obtain a license, although their licensing statement indicates that it is a requirement.
		The GIF uses the 2D raster data type and is encoded in binary.
		Meanwhile, many GIF downloaders and Web site builders on the Web continue to be ignorant of or indifferent to the requirement to get a license from Unisys for the use of their algorithm.
	searchwebservices.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci213984,00.html (343 words)

	What is GIF? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Graphics Interchange Format
		In practice, Unisys has not required users of GIF images to obtain a license, although their licensing statement indicates that it is a requirement.
		The GIF uses the 2D raster data type and is encoded in binary.
		Meanwhile, many GIF downloaders and Web site builders on the Web continue to be ignorant of or indifferent to the requirement to get a license from Unisys for the use of their algorithm.
	searchvb.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid8_gci213984,00.html (382 words)

	GIF - Glossary - CNET.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		However, GIF has lost ground to the JPEG format when it comes to photos.
		GIF images are limited to 256 colors, but JPEGs can contain up to 16 million colors--and they can look almost as good as a photograph.
		CompuServe developed GIF in 1987, calling it GIF87, and two years later added new features such as interlacing, transparency, and animation to create the format known as GIF89a.
	www.cnet.com /Resources/Info/Glossary/Terms/gif.html (131 words)

	Pedagoguery Software: Gif·gIf·giF
		Gif·gIf·giF is a small shareware program for producing GIF animations from screen captures.
		It is especially useful for producing animated software demonstrations or tutorials.
		GIF animations produced with Gif·gIf·giF are automatically displayed by web browsers, such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer, without requiring any add-ons, plug-ins, or helper applications.
	www.peda.com /ggg (191 words)

	Why There Are No GIF files on GNU Web Pages
		There are no GIFs on the GNU web site because of the patents (Unisys and IBM) covering the LZW compression algorithm which is used in making GIF files.
		Perhaps this means we could include a GIF program on our CD-ROM and claim to be acting within the scope of the Unisys permission—or perhaps not.
		It is also possible to create GIFs using a patent-free run length encoding but this doesn't achieve the compression that one normally expects in a GIF.
	www.gnu.org /philosophy/gif.html (1335 words)

	DataCompression.info - GIF - Compuserve's Graphics Interchange Format (Site not responding. Last check: )
		GIF is documented here because it relies on LZW compression is used to store image data internally.
		GIF Construction Set Pro represents the state of the art in GIF animation software.
		A GIF optimizer seeks to reduce the size of your GIF files, usually without compromising image quality.
	datacompression.info /GIF.shtml (1381 words)

	The Unisys/CompuServe GIF Controversy - League for Programming Freedom (LPF)
		On Burn All GIFs Day "all GIF users will gather at Unisys and burn all their GIF files, freeing the web of this silly patent and this useless, litigious company once and for all.
		On December 29, 1994, the folks who have patent rights for a popular graphics format, the GIF format, decided to try to make money off the fact that the Internet has recently started resembling a marketplace.
		CompuServe has entered into an agreement with Unisys in which they agree to encourage any GIF developers who use CompuServe as a distributor to pay a royalty fee to Unisys.
	lpf.ai.mit.edu /Patents/Gif/Gif.html (632 words)

	GIF Animator
		CoffeeCup GIF Animator can convert JPEG and BMP graphics to GIFs automatically, as well as import AVI files.
		GIF Animator makes it easy to create professional GIF Animations, and even Export them to Flash SWF format...
		Editing your existing Animated GIFs is super simple too, just open it up and go to work with the programs user friendly interface.
	www.jhepple.com /gif_animator.htm (198 words)

	CoffeeCup GIF Animator - The Coolest Animation Software on the Planet Now Does Flash !
		CoffeeCup GIF Animator can convert JPEG and BMP graphics to GIFs automatically, as well as import AVI files.
		GIF Animator makes it easy to create professional GIF Animations, and even Export them to Flash SWF format...
		Editing your existing Animated GIFs is super simple too, just open it up and go to work with the programs user friendly interface.
	www.coffeecup.com /gif-animator (387 words)

	Burn All GIFs
		GIFs are now patent-free, but you can learn from the GIF fiasco and protect the digital information you create from patent attacks.
		Unisys is charging web sites $5000 or more to use these now-obsolete GIF graphics if the software originally used to create the GIFs was not covered by a Unisys license.
		The catch is that it appears to be difficult or impossible to get a Unisys license to use LZW in free software that complies with the Open Source Definition or in low-volume proprietary software.
	burnallgifs.org /archives (2407 words)

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