It’s been almost a year since the death of the European patent EP0,129,439 [our local version of the UniSys GiF tax]. This weekend, I thought I’d celebrate, so I added odds and ends of the old GiFLib to fPic. It now can read single-frame .gif files [no plans to support output, as it *is* a vile format, stained by corporate greed and way too many animated abominations]. Doing this I learned a lot on the format, much more than I ever did in the past trying to read the specs. Funny how I relate more to code than docs…

Now back to our regular programming: adding decent formats like .png…

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