| Morgan Wajda-Levie on Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:48:42 -0400 (EDT) |
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On Sun, Aug 29, 1999 at 12:27:03PM -0700, elek wrote: > As much as I'd like to "burn all GIFs" - I'm going crazy here. > > As a web designer - I've got a gazillion GIFs on sites all over the place. > I used GIFs since not all browsers can read jpg's or png's. > > So now - I have all these GIFs on web sites and no time to get them all > switched. > > I wonder if this is why they held out so long before saying "okay now we > want our money"... > > I knew they pretty much "owned" the format but I thought the vendor of the > image software needed the license (I'm not exactly brilliant when it comes > to copyright/trademark/patent laws and I'm still not quite sure I > understand which vendor licenses are and are not acceptable). > > -elek Why not just write a script to do it? Use the gif2png program provided by the PNG web page, and then grep through all .html files and replace any .gif with .png. It's probably a fairly straight forward perl script, though I don't know it off the top of my head. -- Morgan Wajda-Levie http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev PGP fingerprint: A353 C750 660E D8B6 5616 F4D8 7771 DD21 7BF6 221C http://www.worldaxes.com/wajdalev/public.asc for PGP key encrypted mail preferred Attachment:
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