Suchandra Thapa ssthapa at midway.uchicago.edu
Sat Jul 1 17:17:47 EDT 2000

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Keith Murphy <kpmurphy at my-deja.com> wrote:
>does anyone know how to write in gif format.  I am using the PhotoImage
>class, not the Python Imaging Library.  Python tells me "TclError: image
>file format "gif" has no file writing capability"

    I believe that there are some patent issues involved in this.  
Unisys holds the patents for using LZW compression in gif files so
you would need to pay Unisys royalties for makng apps that write gif
files.  


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