home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
- To create your own transparent gifs the easiest way I have found is to list
- the colour map of your gif87, hopefully the transparent colour you want is
- black or white so is easy to find as the first or last colour index
- white will sometimes look like this
- Color 255: Red 247, Green 243, Blue 247, #f7f3f7
- and black is usually:
- Color 0: Red 0, Green 0, Blue 0, #000000
-
- Examples to generate gif89:
- giftrans -t 0 inputgif -o outputgif
- giftrans -t #ffffff -o outputgif inputgif
- giftrans -b 255 -T inputgif > outputgif
-
- Example to list colour table:
- giftrans -L inputgif
-
- The command to generate your GIF with a transparent background should look
- something like the examples above. If you piped the output to a file then
- change the filetype of outputgif to gif. Using giftrans -L you will see that
- the file is now a GIF89a and has a transparent colour index of 255 or
- whichever colour index you specified.
-
- The following was generated by 'giftrans -?' in a taskwindow
-
- Usage: giftrans [-t color|-T] [-B color] [-b color] [-g oldcolor=newcolor] [-c comment|-C] [-l|-L|-V] [-o filename] [filename]
- Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a, with the folloing changes possible:
- -t Specify the transparent color
- -T Index of the transparent color is the background color index
- -B Specify the transparent color's new value
- -b Specify the background color
- -g Change a color in the global color table
- -c Add a comment
- -C Remove old comment
- -l Only list the color table
- -L Verbose output of GIFs contents
- -V Verbose output while converting
- -o Pathname of output GIF file
- Colors may be specified as index or in the #rrggbb form.
-
- The source code and further information on giftrans can be obtained from
- the following two places.
-
- Original distribution site is
- ftp://ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/net/www/tools/giftrans.c
- Additional info can be found on
- http://melmac.harris-atd.com/transparent_images.html
-
- This version along with source code can be obtained from me at
- simon@bigblue.demon.co.uk
- or
- Simon Truss
- 23 Charlton Gardens,
- Coulsdon
- Surrey
- CR5 1AS
-