[GRASS-dev] GIF -> PNG

Hamish hamish_nospam at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 27 06:36:08 EDT 2006


Markus Neteler wrote:
> > would it be possible to use PNG for logo in HTML manual pages
> > instead of GIF? That only means to convert the logo
> > and modify Html.make.
> 
> Many more files were affected, but done.
> 
> > Qt is not compiled with GIF support by default because of
> > patent problems.
> 
> AFAIK the patent is expired. Anyway, PNG is fine
> and now used.


For the record, TclTk doesn't like PNG. e.g. the NVIZ help browser won't
load PNG help graphics in the nviz man pages. I consider the fix for
this to be dropping that help browser altogether & in general dropping
tcltk...


Hamish




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