Re: Complex script editor wish list
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 20, 2003, 4:31 |
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Herman Miller scripsit:
> >Would it be possible to "print" to a GIF-image?
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> Not without paying a royalty to Sun or whoever it was that owns the LZW
> patent. (Evil software patents!)
The LZW patent expired in the U.S. on 2003-06-20, hurrah! In Canada,
parts of the E.U., and Japan, it will last another year.
But there is always PNG, a technically superior as well as unencumbered
standard for non-photographic images.
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
[R]eversing the apostolic precept to be all things to all men, I usually [before
Darwin] defended the tenability of the received doctrines, when I had to do
with the [evolution]ists; and stood up for the possibility of [evolution] among
the orthodox--thereby, no doubt, increasing an already current, but quite
undeserved, reputation for needless combativeness. --T. H. Huxley