Picsel Image File Format Support
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GIF
GIF, the CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format, is widely used on
web pages. It can store interlaced rows of pixels, appearing as
progressive rendering, as well as binary transparency and animation. It
supports a maximum of 256 indexed colours, but no full-colour images.
GIF uses LZW compression to encode repeating patterns of pixels of
certain colours and save file sizes, but the animation requires re-
encoding of the image, which wastes space.
Feature Support
Notes
GIF87a format
Yes
GIF89a format
Yes
1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256
indexed colours
Yes
Compressed image data
Yes
Transparent colour mask
Yes
Row interlacing for progressive
rendering
Yes
Future Support
In addition to the above features, the following will be added in future
releases of Picsel software. The ordering in this list does not indicate any
priority.
Multi-frame animation
