Re: libjpeg/libpng-based image loading

[Stefan Kleine Stegemann]

Hi,

> > > > If your favorite format isn't in this list, now would be a good 
> > > > time to
> > > > write a loader for it. :)
> > > I started writing a loader for gifs this weekend and think i can 
> > > make it 
> > > working
> > > this weekend. it is based on libungif. The documentations states 
> > > that 
> > > libungif
> > > cannot be used to create compressed gif images (this would require 
> > > using
> > > the lzw patent), so i think we do not have any patent issues here.
> > The problem I see with this is that you have no control over whether 
> > or not 
> > a GIF that is on any particular website is actually compressed or 
> > not. 
> > Therefore, if I'm understanding libungif correctly, it will fail to 
> > decode 
> > any LZW-compressed GIF on any given webpage.
>
> I think libungif will read LZW-compressed files.  What it doesn't do 
> is 
> ENcode them with LZW.  It uses some other algorithm for writing.  
> It's based 
> on ESRs libgif package, BTW.
yes, that's the point. and as long as we don't want to save images we 
should
have no problems.

greets
Stefan