Re: xsane-saving formats

Robert Schwebel (r.schwebel@tu-bs.de)
Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:36:11 +0100

Oliver Rauch wrote:
> Does anyone know an important and free library or format that
> should be supported too ? - GIF is not planned because of copyright,
> unGIF is not interesting because data reduction is not included.

Does there really exist a problem with the copyright of the GIF
compression algorithm? Nearly all programs support GIF today, and I
think the discussion was over.

The best thing for xsane was to implement a netpbm interface; it is
present on nearly all platforms today and you don't have to implement
all this stuff again.

Robert

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