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

[Imran Ghory]

On 28 Jan 2001, at 4:00, Tom Chance wrote:

> When it comes to images, I think the PNG support is
> fine. Opera and IE seem to handle them perfectly well,

I'm informed (I'm not a specialist in this so I don't know how true 
this is) that the PNG support in IE 5.5 is broken.

Also notice that PNG support is not integral to IE5, and it is not 
unusual for versions of IE pre-installed by manafacturers to have 
PNG support disabled.

BTW. Which version of IE are you testing it on, I've just done a 
clean install of IE3 and it doesn't have PNG support at all.

>>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!

I believe a GPLed gif->PNG converter exists.

> 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 

What about people who want to include graphics ?

Imran