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Re: vm-mime-use-image-strips doesn't align strips properly

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 05:28
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Robert Marshall  <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
 > On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, kyle_jones@wonderworks.com wrote:
 > 
 > > Robert Marshall  <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
 > >  > The vm folder here :
 > >  > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robert.marshall15/gif-bug.gz
 > >  > 
 > >  > contains a .gif that doesn't display properly (at least in emacs
 > >  > 21.2) if vm-mime-use-image-strips is set to t Note that this
 > >  > message will _crash_ some earlier versions of emacs
 > > 
 > > Is the problem limited to just that image or does it occur with
 > > any image of similar size and/or type?
 > 
 > Maybe there's something wrong with the gif?
 > 
 > I get
 > ee ~/stars.gif 
 > 
 > GIF-LIB error: Wrong record type detected.
 > 
 > Haven't been able to replicate the problem with another so far - I
 > think its also animated which may be another issue?

The animated aspect certain bother VM under XEmacs.  The first
strip twinkles, but the rest show up as "Unknown/Bad GIF imag
encoding".  I don't think strip cutting process works on animated
GIFs.
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From: kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones)
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Subject: Re: vm-mime-use-image-strips doesn't align strips properly
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 05:28:09 +0000 (UTC)
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