Animated GIFs and CGI

auldd has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is anyone aware of a package/library (probably has to be a commercial one) that would allow for the on-the-fly creation of animated GIFs with a Perl CGI running on a LINUX (v. 6.2) server? I've used the GD library (the old one, before all the copyright nonsense) to build static GIFs, but now I'd like to build custom animated GIFs on the fly. Anyone have any thoughts/experience in this area?

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Re: Animated GIFs and CGI by KM (Priest) on Oct 12, 2000 at 05:56 UTC
You may want to look at the ImageMagick libraries as well as PerlMagick (Image::Magick) to use them. Basically, of you use software that can create them, look to see if an interface to the API has been done in Perl. But, I have used PerlMagick to do some crude animated GIFs in the past. Cheers, KM	[reply]
Re: Animated GIFs and CGI by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 12, 2000 at 07:16 UTC
GIMP-Perl is another nice package, especially if you're already familiar with the Gimp. O'Reilly has a book called Programming Web Graphics with Perl and GNU Software dedicated to these sorts of things. It's pretty good. Check it out here.	[reply]
RE: Re: Animated GIFs and CGI by JanneVee (Friar) on Oct 12, 2000 at 10:40 UTC
I personaly like GIMP-Perl... But generally I'm not a fan of animated gifs. I generally try to avoid them. /JanneVee	[reply]
Re: Animated GIFs and CGI by Anonymous Monk on Feb 27, 2003 at 03:07 UTC
I found this perl script which worked first time (on Mozilla/Netscape) Thanks Andrew. http://www.radzone.org/tutorials/animatep.html	[reply]