Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: LibGd and LZW

Author:Arnold V. Lesikar
Posted:8/29/1999; 9:58:03 AM
Topic:GIFs get expensive
Msg #:10200 (In response to 10198)
Prev/Next:10199 / 10201

One warning: figure out why RLE compression was removed from GD before distributing it. There's a whole bunch of patents related to run-length encoding.

Gee whiz, Eric. I dunno. Have you done a patent search on RLE in Gifs?

Tom Boutell's web site (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) just mentions the Unisys patent, nothing at all about problems with RLE.

Think we otta withdraw libGd?

arn

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