1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC 3 "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 4 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [ 5<!ENTITY project "http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/?source=directory"> 6]> 7<refentry id='giflib.7'> 8<refentryinfo><date>3 June 2012</date></refentryinfo> 9<refmeta> 10<refentrytitle>giflib</refentrytitle> 11<manvolnum>7</manvolnum> 12<refmiscinfo class="source">GIFLIB</refmiscinfo> 13<refmiscinfo class="manual">GIFLIB Documentation</refmiscinfo> 14</refmeta> 15<refnamediv id='name'> 16<refname>giflib</refname> 17<refpurpose>GIFLIB utilities</refpurpose> 18</refnamediv> 19 20<refsect1><title>Description</title> 21 22<para>GIFLIB is a linkable service library and a set of utilities for 23processing images encoded using GIF (Graphics Interchange Format).</para> 24 25<para>These utilities are not intended to compete with or replace 26multi-format graphics toolkits like ImageMagick or the Python Imaging 27Library, or graphics editors such as the GIMP. Find one of those, or 28an equivalent, if you need to crop, scale, rotate, toggle interlacing, 29or perform other conventional image transformations. Rather, these are 30intended to facilitate GIF-specific operations which multi-format tools 31may not adequately support.</para> 32 33<para>API documentation for the service library is best viewed through 34a browser at the project website: &project;.</para> 35 36</refsect1> 37<refsect1><title>See Also</title> 38 39<para> 40<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gif2rgb</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 41<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gifbuild</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 42<citerefentry><refentrytitle>giffix</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 43<citerefentry><refentrytitle>giftext</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 44<citerefentry><refentrytitle>giftool</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>, 45<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gifclrmap</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. 46</para> 47 48</refsect1> 49<refsect1><title>Authors</title> 50 51<para>Gershon Elber, Eric S. Raymond, Toshio Kuratomi.</para> 52 53</refsect1> 54</refentry> 55 56