gifburst(1)

gifburst1

The gifburst program takes a named gif file and breaks it into equal-sized tiles. this is useful if a gif is too large for your viewer, so you have to look at it in sections.

Usage

gifburst [-s n] [-p b] gif-file

Memory required

Proportional to the size of the largest pasted image.

Options

[-s nnn]

Specify the number of pieces. Valid values are presently 4 (2x2) and 6 (2x3). Default is 4.

[-p nnn]

Specify the number of pixels of overlap between interior boundaries of pieces. Default 20.

Note:

The gifburst program is written on Perl, using the C utilities. You must have both the giflib utilities and Perl installed to run it.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0–4.0
  4. 6.0–8

-p until Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s until Debian 4.0 (Etch).