RE: [Sheflug] Producing Animations

[Nicola Richmond <n.j.richmond [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 00:47, Ted.Harding [at] nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:

> What you've done there, with 'convert', is to create an animated GIF: a
> single image file which encpasulates several images. To play this you
> need a viewer (e.g. netscape or mozilla) which will display animated GIFs
> as, well, animated.
> 
> Ordinary viewers (like 'xv', or ImageMagick's own 'display') won't.

I'm having to compromise my standards and resort to OpenOffice  -
apologies to people who like it but I'm a latex fan myself - so I'll be
using Impress to view the animated GIF. I tried this last night and it
works.

> To stop this looping, you can create it with option "-loop 0"
> (see 'man convert').

Great this is exactly what I need.

> You can also put animated GIFs inside an animated GIF using 'convert'
> as above, opening the door to I don't know what depth of recursion ...
> Please have more wine before embarking on this (apologies for tasteless
> remarks last time about crisps and lager).

Yes I'll take your advice on the wine front - and tasteless remarks are
always welcomed.

Thanks for the help.

Nicola.


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