Can I export an animated GIF?

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 15:37:05 EST 2006


On 2/1/06, graham samuel <graham.samuel at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Thanks to Chipp, Klaus, Jacqueline and Richard for picking this up! I
> see there are solutions to exporting the animated GIF, although not
> one that simply parks it on the clipboard: still, it can be done.
>
> Yes, I am pursuing the problem of corruption which I'd earlier
> reported to RR support and which was mentioned by Jacqueline: at
> present I'm eliminating images in order to look for the bad one,
> while trying to make sure that the script still goes on running.
> There doesn't seem any other way of pinning down the offending
> graphic, if that indeed is the source of the problem.
>
> I assume that if I export an image to the clipboard and recreate it
> in a graphic app (say GraphicConverter on OSX), then it won't be
> corrupt any more - I wonder if this is true? I can't quite imagine
> what this corruption consists of: if we can see the image and
> manipulate it, what else is there to go wrong? I realise this just
> shows my lack of imagination.

Hi Graham,

Have you tried editing the gif in your external editor and then saving
it from there? I haven't done this with animated gifs, so I don't know
if it works, but it might be worth a try.

Sarah



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