3 This is the README file of GIFLIB, a library for manipulating GIF files.
5 Latest versions of GIFLIB are currently hosted at:
6 http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib
10 GIF is a legacy format; we recommend against generating new images in
11 it. For a cleaner, more extensible design with better color support
12 and compression, look up PNG.
14 giflib provides code for reading GIF files and transforming them into
15 RGB bitmaps, and for writing RGB bitmaps as GIF files.
17 The (permissive) open-source license is in the file COPYING.
19 You will find build instructions in build.asc
21 You will find full documentation of the API in doc/ and on the
24 The project has a long and confusing history, described in history.asc
26 The project to-do list is in TODO.