Hi, degger@xxxxxxx writes: > > will gimp support the "mng" fileformat ?? > > GIMP is an image manipulation program, mng is an animation format. so what? > > i have to make little animations, but i don't want to use the > > gif-format (because of the patent). > > so i read on the site www.burnallgifs.org of the format mng, but my > > gimp 1.2, doesn't know it. > > Exactly. gif was an expection because the animation mode is an extension > to the picture format and thus not to complicated to implement. Maybe > someone will hack a plugin that supports libmng but we'll definitely > not see this in any 1.2.x version, probably not even in 1.4.x except if > someone finds the time to do it. Of course a plug-in for 1.2 can be hacked. We won't include it into the official distribution because of the feature freeze, but of course a MNG plug-in for gimp-1.2 would be very much appreciated. Salut, Sven
