[Sheflug] converting to gif

[José Luis Gómez Dans <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
	I am running against big walls over here... I am trying to
convert some really simple monochrome images from PNG (or eps) to GIF
for mailing about, as people complain Winblows doesn't like my formats
at all. These images are histograms, graphs, scatter plots, and the
PNG's are very small (~2 k). If I convert them to GIF using convert
(convert histogram.png histogram.gif), the resulting file is a joke,
nearing 170k!!! I know that GIF is specially good at this sort of
images, so I am wondering what am I doing wrong? presumably, it is doing
a 256 colour image or something, but for my life, I can't find the
options to make the gif file reasonable in size.

	Answers on the back of a postcard :-)
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
Tel: +44 114 222 5582			Radar & Communications Group
FAX; +44 870 132 2990			Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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