After a year-long hiatus, version 1.96 of the console utility was released gifsicle, designed for creating and editing images and animations in the format GIF, as well as to obtain information about files in this format. The package also includes gifdiff and gifview (for X11) utilities for comparing and viewing GIF files, respectively.
The utility is written in C and distributed under the GNU GPL 2 license.
List of changes:
- With the --lossy option, the currently selected color space (specified by --gamma, sRGB by default) is now used to measure color errors, and a different algorithm is used to calculate color differences. As a result, --lossy=N behaves differently in 1.96 than in previous versions. With the specified N value, compression may be worse than you expect. The closest analog to previous versions will be obtained by using --lossy=N --gamma=1.
- Improved handling of GIF files with images located far beyond the logical screen. This can significantly reduce memory consumption.
- Added preliminary color space support Oklab (—gamma=oklab).
- Added dithering algorithm atkinson (—dither=atkinson).
- Added option --use-exact-colormap.
- Bugs fixed.
Source: linux.org.ru
