Re: Convert3200 flaw

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4h3868$di3@news.ysu.edu>,
Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
[What happens when trying to load a huge GIF file on a machine
without enough memory]

> It means that the file will not be loaded.
>The load is aborted with a message of not having sufficient memory.
>If  Convert3200 allowed scaling at the BEGINNING before loading (like
>ImageQuant does it), it would avoid this problem.

   Just because some program has a feature, the lack of it in another
program is not a flaw in the second. If Convert 3200 could not read
half of the GIFs in existence, that would be a flaw. Not bending over
backwards for those without enough memory is not a flaw.

Nathan Mates


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