Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : animated gif doesn't animate
digitalecartoon
04-24-2007, 04:03 PM
With Imageready I've made an animated gif for someone with 4 repeating frames. Mailed it to her. Strange thing is: when she opens the gif attachment it doesn't animate. Also when she downloads it and opens the gif file with IE it doesn't animate either. This happens for her with all animated gifs which she opens offline. When animated gif files (like the one I send her) are online and she opens it in IE it does animate :confused:
It there a setting somewhere which could be responsible for animated gifs not animating offline but animating online/ :confused:
digitalecartoon
05-05-2007, 06:11 AM
I've asked them to send the gif file back as they have saved it on their computer. Turns out the gif is being saved (either through an email attachment or from a website) as a bmp kind of file: only the first frame remains, making it a static image. I've read about this: jpegs or gifs which are saved as bmp. And that you should delete your temporary internet files. But that didn't help them. Is there anything else they could do to prevent that jpegs of gifs are being saved in a bmp kind of format?
tracknut
05-05-2007, 10:33 AM
Since I don't know the mail program she's using, or the operating system, it's hard to guess. But there has to be a way to save an attachment you send without messing with it. She needs to look at the help in her mailer.
Dave
HockeyJose
05-05-2007, 11:03 AM
Host the gif on an image hosting site like photobucket or imageshack, then email her the link to the file. She can just click the link and then right click/save as the gif.
UbuntuniX
05-05-2007, 05:20 PM
You need to "Save for web".
Major Payne
05-06-2007, 01:48 AM
HockeyJose has the best idea of doing it, but if she is going to use the image on the web anyway, she can just use the URL of the image at PhotoBucket.com and save having to download it.
Ron
.gif files will only be animated on a webpage.
Major Payne
05-09-2007, 06:44 PM
.gif files will only be animated on a webpage.Not necessarily. Mine are animated in my emails or from a browser window where file has been dragged and dropped into the window. Some graphic apps on your PC will also animate an animated GIF file when it's run in that app.
Ron
I guess I shouldn't have been so specific. .Gif files will only be animated in graphic programs that will show animated gifs and applications that support html (such as email)