Re: [Sheflug] converting to gif

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry about the last blank mail. Daft ol' me press C-x. I'm using Emacs
too much :)

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:

> 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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