Re: [HACKERS] Re: map

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:26:03 -0500 (EST)
> From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
> To: phd2@earthling.net
> Cc: vev@michvhf.com, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, hackers@postgreSQL.org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: map
> 
> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Let me look at that.  Seems to have grown somehow.  It is the
> > > transparency that is causing it.  I am using 'convert' to add the
> > > transparency.  Have other people seen 'transparancy' increasing the file
> > > size?
> > 
> >    Convert (if you meant ImageMagic's convert) definetely does not use LZW to
> > compress GIFs :(
> 
> Man, that stinks.  OK, I am now using giftrans, and that works and
> produces small files.

I see a big thread in mailing list about 'map', so let me also
post a reference to gifsicle. This is a great tool !

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~eddietwo/gifsicle/
Regards,
    Oleg
> 
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