Download Ulead GIF Animator ShowFor your Web site or your PowerPoint presentations, you need animated GIFs to cheer up your pages.
Ulead GIF Animator is the most successful and accessible program in term of creation of animated GIF. It allows to create a simple animation sequence....
Download Easy GIF Animator ShowEasy GIF Animator is a powerful and easy-to-use program for creation and edition of animated GIF images. With this GIF file editor, you can easily create animated images, banners and buttons in no time.
You can use the special features to add visual...
GIF format ShowGIF format
The GIF format (Graphic Interchange Format) is a bitmap (raster) graphic file format developed by Compuserve.
There are two versions of this file format developed respectively in 1987 and 1989:
GIF 87a supporting LZW compression,...
Inserting an animated gif in Excel ShowInserting an animated gif in Excel
To insert an animated gif image in an Excel spreadsheet, you must insert the image into a control.
To insert the control, go to the View menu/Toolbars/Control Toolbox
Activate the first button Design...
Inserting animated gif ShowInserting animated gif
An animated gift can be inserted in a powerpoint show like any other graphical format ( e.g bmp, jpg, etc)
To enable this:
Add a new slide that can contain an image.
Select the option “Insert...
[Myth] The GIF format is license based ShowThe GIF format is license based
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Do not use the GIF format because it is subject to a license.
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GIF format (invented by CompuServe, an American ISP) use the method of LZW...
File formats and extensions ShowWhat is a MIME type?
The MIME type (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is a standard that was proposed
by the Bell Communications laboratories in 1991 to broaden the possibilities of email, involving insertion of documents (images, sounds and...
JPEG compression ShowJPEG compression
The acronym JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group comes from the meeting held in 1982 of a group of photographic experts, whose main concern was to work on the ways to transmit information (still or animated images). In 1986, the...
LZW Compression ShowLZW compression
Abraham Lempel and Jakob Ziv are the creators of the LZ77 compressor, invented in 1977 (hence its name). This compressor was then used for filing (ZIP, ARJ and LHA formats use it).
In 1978 they created the LZ78 compressor...