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diff --git a/graphics/gifsicle/DESCR b/graphics/gifsicle/DESCR index 86b96fb08cd..fca213e99d1 100644 --- a/graphics/gifsicle/DESCR +++ b/graphics/gifsicle/DESCR @@ -1,24 +1,23 @@ -Gifsicle is a UNIX command-line tool for creating, editing, -and getting information about GIF images and animations. -You can also extract frames from animations, or replace, delete, -or insert frames into existing animations. +Gifsicle is a UNIX command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting +information about GIF images and animations. You can also extract frames from +animations, or replace, delete, or insert frames into existing animations. + Some more gifsicle features: - * Batch mode for changing GIFs in place. - * Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments. - * Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency... - * Creates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses - local color tables if it absolutely has to (local color tables - waste space and can cause viewing artifacts), etc. - * It can shrink colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe - palette (or any colormap you choose). - * It can optimize your animations! This stores only the changed - portion of each frame, and can radically shrink your GIFs. You can - also use transparency to make them even smaller. Gifsicle's - optimizer is pretty powerful, and usually reduces animations to - within a couple bytes of the best commercial optimizers. - * Unoptimizing animations, which makes them easier to edit. +- Batch mode for changing GIFs in place. +- Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments. +- Control over interlacing, comments, looping, transparency... +- Creates well-behaved GIFs: removes redundant colors, only uses + local color tables if it absolutely has to (local color tables + waste space and can cause viewing artifacts), etc. +- It can shrink colormaps and change images to use the Web-safe + palette (or any colormap you choose). +- It can optimize your animations! This stores only the changed + portion of each frame, and can radically shrink your GIFs. You + can also use transparency to make them even smaller. Gifsicle's + optimizer is pretty powerful, and usually reduces animations + to within a couple bytes of the best commercial optimizers. +- Unoptimizing animations, which makes them easier to edit. -Two other programs are included with gifsicle: gifview is a -lightweight animated-GIF viewer which can show animations -as slideshows or in real time, and gifdiff compares two GIFs -for identical visual appearance. +Two other programs are included with gifsicle: gifview is a lightweight +animated-GIF viewer which can show animations as slideshows or in real +time, and gifdiff compares two GIFs for identical visual appearance. |