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* Company: [[Compuserve]]
* Company: [[CompuServe]]
* Description: http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/formats/gif.html
* Description: http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/formats/gif.html
* Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/GIF/
* Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/GIF/

Revision as of 22:32, 12 January 2007

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossy image compression format. It supports animation and uses a 256 color palette. The PNG format was designed as an alternative to GIF, due to patent concerns about LZW compression.