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[udi]

There is no way to make a gif animation with one-pass only.

That's it: if I set the loop to be 0 it makes infinit loops, OK.
If I set the loop counter to be 1 it makes one loop. But one
loop is two passess. So, I can't do only one pass.

Artoonix showld counnts the number of iterations -not-
number of loops!

Bye,
Udi

[youri]

Hi, Udi,
not sure what you mean exactly - there are some extensions to the GIF format that specify "loop", "iterations", "repeat" properties. As far as I know if loop is set to 1 it should ignore iterations/repeat flags and repeat endlessly (default in most GIF interpreters like web browsers); if loop is set to 0, then the iterations/repeat flags will determine how many times it will play (again, this behaviour depends on the interpreter, not all of them understand these flags - like MS powerpoint, for instance). If there is no flags set, default behaviour is assumed, I guess - which probably means infinite looping in most cases.
hope this helps, but do let me know if i'm missing the point here..

cheers,
youri
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[udi]

I'll explain the problem by example:

When I make a gif anim by artoonix and set the loop counter to be 1
the browsers show me two loops.

When I make a gif anim by artoonix and set the loop counter to be 0
the browsers show me infinit loops.


Now. I export the frams as images and use the command
convert (ImageMagick):

[youri]

indeed, udi, IE gives two loops while google chrome, or ppt correctly shows only one.. The problem is a number of different extensions (mentioned in my previous note) to the header in GIF that are not supported by all viewers (and not fully standardized) .. Will see what we can do for the next release.
cheers,
youri
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