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In article <3k6nl5$3jh@strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk>,
Stewart Brodie <snb94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>Simon Truss's gif2spr is used for GIF89 images.  I may add a
>configuration option to ArcWebImg to allow GIF87 to be sent to gif2spr
>as well.  The problem is that we could really do with gif2sprFSI as the
>quality of the output from ChangeFSI is far superior due to the FSI
>bit.  Compare the two Babylon 5 logos on the default home page.  The
>CFSI one looks *much* better than the gif2spr one.  I suspect this is
>the reason for the far slower conversion, plus all the baggage for
>handling other types.  gif2spr is excellent in terms of speed and
>handling of GIF89 images, though, and I wouldn't be without it.

But gif2spr gives you a sprite with the same palette as the GIF, so the lack of
dithering shouldn't be a problem. CFSI has to map the GIF to the default RISC
OS palette (where dithering helps a great deal to improve the image). I haven't
tried the Babylon 5 logo, but other GIFs I've converted with gif2spr look just
as good (if not better) than under CFSI as long as you examine them in a screen
mode with >256 colours.

Liam