As of R4.0, BeOS does not include a a GIF Translator (NetPositive has its own GIF-rendering engine), meaning you can’t create GIF images with BeOS „out of the box.“ Until Be resolves its issues with the Unisys patent that governs the GIF compression algorithm, there are several ways to create GIFS on BeOS:<\/p>\n
netpbm, unfortunately, makes you do everything in two or more steps, turning your image into a ppm file, and then that ppm file into the desired format. As of R4.0, BeOS does not include a a GIF Translator (NetPositive has its own GIF-rendering engine), meaning you can’t create GIF images with BeOS „out of the box.“ Until Be resolves its issues with the Unisys patent that governs the GIF compression algorithm, there are several ways to create GIFS on BeOS: Daniel Switkin’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAfter getting netpbm installed and working, create some scripts for yourself that will reduce this work to a single command. For example, the script below will convert a file from tga to gif with one command. If you have a file called ScreenShot.tga in the current directory, just type: makegif ScreenShot<\/code>.
\nSave the following text as a file called makegif in your \/boot\/home\/config\/bin directory, then hack variants of it to accomplish any translations you like.<\/p>\n\nfile=\"$*\"\ntgatoppm $file.tga > $file.ppm\nppmtogif $file.ppm > $file.gif\necho\necho Created $file.gif\nrm $file.ppm\necho Remove $file.tga?\n\tread yn\n\tif [ \"$yn\" = \"y\" ]; then\n\t\trm $file.tga\n\tfi\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"