Re: [Bug-gnupedia]M$ Word and GIFs

[Tom Chance]

Well that's alright then. Do we accept GIFs and turn
them into PNGs though? I guess any program that won't
export a PNG will always export a jpeg or something
else similar that we can convert if needed.

Tom


--- Hector Facundo Arena <address@hidden>
wrote: > 
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Tom Chance wrote:
> 
> > I think we need to sort out at what point we forgo
> FSF
> > and GNU's philosophies for the sake of
> accessibility.
> > Hector...?
> 
> Well, as everybody knows, there are some legal
> issues with the GIF format.
> So I think the better for everyone is not to use it.
> After all, JPG is
> most used that GIF.
> 
> > When it comes to images, I think the PNG support
> is
> > fine. Opera and IE seem to handle them perfectly
> well,
> > though I don't know aout Netscape, Mozilla etc. We
> > should really use PNGs because although its not an
> > exclusive policy of GNU, it is one that the whole
> > community shares. We will also have to allow
> people to
> > submit images of all sorts of formats, including
> GIFs,
> > because many programs don't support saving images
> as
> > PNGs. But we should ask people to save as PNGs,
> > afterall its just an option in the "Save As" (or
> > similar) menu!
> 
> Yes, Netscape, Mozilla and the others support PNG's
> very well. I use them
> on my home site.
> 
> > With Word files, we should ask people to again go
> to
> > Save As and save them as pure text. Its not that
> much
> > bother to do that with a few files really is it?
> > Because they'll have to sort out the formatting of
> > their text anyway to remove things that we won't
> > display like macros etc. If a University Professor
> is
> > that unmotivated that he won't resave them, why is
> he
> > bothering in the first place? We're assuming a
> high
> > level of stupidity and/or laziness here! And
> people
> > are hardly likely to submit a batch of 40
> articles,
> > whichthey'll have to redo individually. It would
> also
> > be helpful to distribute a gzip or tarball type
> > program. But to start with, we shouldn't allow
> Word
> > files (as it is the GNU philosophy) and only allow
> > them if it transpires later on that we really do
> need
> > to.
> >
> 
> Or they can just copy and paste to the web form if
> the article is just
> text.
> 
> 
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