InterGif 6 beta 2
This is beta software. There's been a lot of rewriting, and so
some things which worked in 5.01 may not work in 6 (although
I've tested it quite a lot). I suggest that, for the time being,
you keep a copy of 5.01.
Improvements over InterGif 5.01
- "Transparent borders" work-round for Fresco, Claris
HomePage, and some other programs which override the screen-size
with the size of the first image when given non-animated GIFs.
- Microbugfix: 'split' icon in desktop version now works.
- Lots of exciting palette-mapping code, which lets you
forcibly reduce the number of colours used in a GIF (making it
smaller).
The extra features are documented in the !Help file in the
archive (the main Web page still goes on about InterGif 5).
Download
Just click here
(39K).
Bugs fixed since 6 beta 1
- -216 and -256 used to get colours slightly wrong; now fixed.
- If handed a GIF with too much compressed data, InterGif will now
discard the extra rather than report an error. (You'll still see a
warning on stderr if you're using it from the command line.)
- Both the !Boot file and the !Run file now set both Alias$InterGif
and InterGif$Dir.
- -join didn't work at all well in 6b1. Now fixed.
- -split didn't work at all well either, come to that, except with -s. Now fixed.
Known bugs in this beta
- GIFs with more than 256 colours on the same frame still can't be
loaded properly, but it makes a better job of it than either 6b1 or
5.01. This can happen, for example, if frame 2 is partially
transparent but has its own 256-entry palette, none of whose colours
appear on frame 1.
- Specifying a transparent colour, whether in the dialogue box
or by giving -t pixel to the command-line version,
doesn't work.
- "Press space or click mouse to continue" message when
converting Draw files with text in. (A RiscOS bug, but there may
be a work-round.)
Reporting more bugs
By email to me, pdh@utter.chaos.org.uk, as usual.
Peter Hartley
20th May 1997