(keitai-l) Re: GIFs & Unisys

there are some server side tools that are licenced to produce GIFs, eg
Generator from macromedia (since discontinued tho I believe). Anyone else
know tools like that? It was quite useful - apart from dynamic flash, for
just template driven realtime bitmaps.

you could theoretically setup a script to pipe your dynamic RGB graphics
thru photoshop to clean the license :)

I've seen GIF licenses be the super ugly front page on an imode site (some
official greeting card site). turn off. Unisys really are setting out to
show by example what a pain patent encumbered technology can be >> PNG,
eggvorbis roll on.

/dc

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//    Subject: (keitai-l) GIFs & Unisys
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//    A mundane question:
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//    The majority of current Docomo phones support GIF only,
//    but as far as I
//    know, Docomo haven't purchased a system-wide license LZW
//    license from
//    Unisys, which means content suppliers have to negotiate licenses
//    individually or assemble GIFs without LZW compression,
//    which makes them
//    bigger, of course.
//
//    Have I missed something here? And if people are creating
//    GIFs without
//    the compression, what tool are they using?
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