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General Discussion / Re: what is the best tool for pixelation?
« on: September 30, 2005, 05:05:09 pm »Quote
I have version 1.78 and it can handle the GIF format.Note that I was talking about the free version. Of course the full version can save/load gifs fine.
Yes I know about animated PNG. currently there are two competing formats: apng and mng
I have emailed the graphics gale programmers about adding some form of animated png but so far they have not. They do not seem very open to feature requests and never email me back. I suggest everyone that wants animated png support to email them so we can finally get this feature and leave animated GIF in the dust forever.
On the surface GIF seems fine, but it is lossy (png is lossless so there is no quality loss when saving to png) and GIF is not a free & open format, while PNG is.
One reason MNG is not widely adopted is because the library required to put it into programs is HUGE (almost 1mb on its own); apng is much smaller and will probably win out over MNG in the future. Unfortunately these standards are being adopted VERY slowly and we may not see them supported in all browsers out-of-the-box for a long time