Re: [HACKERS] Re: map

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:26:03 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> To: phd2(at)earthling(dot)net
> Cc: vev(at)michvhf(dot)com, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: map
>
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Let me look at that. Seems to have grown somehow. It is the
> > > transparency that is causing it. I am using 'convert' to add the
> > > transparency. Have other people seen 'transparancy' increasing the file
> > > size?
> >
> > Convert (if you meant ImageMagic's convert) definetely does not use LZW to
> > compress GIFs :(
>
> Man, that stinks. OK, I am now using giftrans, and that works and
> produces small files.

I see a big thread in mailing list about 'map', so let me also
post a reference to gifsicle. This is a great tool !

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/gifsicle/

Regards,

Oleg
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