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Re: Exporting images from Track Designer
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lugnet.trains
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Thu, 1 Feb 2001 04:30:29 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Matthew Bates writes:
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> I did think about a Save As Image function but there was a big problem. For
> storing to the Web you really want GIF files not BMPs. I don't know how to
> generate GIF files and my understanding at the time was you have to pay a
> license fee to someone to build GIF saving functions into a program. Not an
> option. I thought that being able to copy to a program that supports GIF was
> more useful than saving BMPs and then having to load them into another
> program to convert them.
Ummm, I actually prefer to use JPEG or PNG rather than GIF, because of the
Unisys patent (read about it at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html). There
are libraries available for converting to / from these formats.
Regards
ROSCO
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| (...) It's not quite the same thing. Unlike the PrintScreeen option I had to write code to support this feature! When you do want to save a lot of images you don't want to have to edit them each time. I did think about a Save As Image function but (...) (24 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains)
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