have only to leaf through the Gallery chapter in this book. OLOF S. KYLANDER Olof is a UNIX and network system administrator. He received his formal computer education at the Chalmers University of Technology been configuring various UNIX systems and networks ever since. Olof currently works for the UNIX/Network consulting company Sigma-nbit in Gothenburg, and is presently occupied with configuring Solaris servers 84 T h e G i m p Us er ’ s M a n u a l F i l e s A nd Pr ef er e n c e s • PNG (Portable Network Graphics): The format that is supposed to replace the GIF format and thus provide a solution to GIF’s

import images into the GIMP. This allows you to import images from sources other than a disk or the network, such a screen capture or an image from a scanner. Activating the Submenu • You can access this selecting it from the list. Open Location The Open Location dialog lets you load an image from a network location, specified by a URI, in any of the formats that GIMP supports, or from a path to your hard http or ftp) and the location of the resource in the computer network. The name of the URI scheme is therefore derived from the network protocol used for it as a rule. Examples of that are http or ftp

THE FILE FORMAT DOES NOT SUPPORT ANIMATION GNU Image Manipulation Program 301 / 653 Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Figure 13.77: Export PNG File Dialog The PNG format, a lossless format, supports replaced with the background color of Toolbox. THE FILE FORMAT SUPPORTS ANIMATION Multiple-Image Network Graphics (MNG) GNU Image Manipulation Program 302 / 653 Figure 13.79: Export MNG File Dialog Diálogo import images into the GIMP. This allows you to import images from sources other than a disk or the network, such a screen capture or an image from a scanner. 14.2.2.1 Activating the Submenu • You can access

“Multiple-Image Network Graphics”. The main problem is that Konqueror is the only Web navigator that recognizes the MNG animation format. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-image_Network_Graphics Open Location… This command opens the “Open Location” dialog that lets you load an image from a network location, specified by a URI, in any of the formats that GIMP supports. 16.2.6.1 Activate Command depth (up to 256 different colors per image). Since GIF was developed, a new format called Portable Network Graphics (PNG) has been developed, which is better than GIF in all respects, with the exception of

only store image in 256 colours. Renowned for its ability to store animations. PNG Portable Network Graphics Provides better lossless compression than BMP and GIF. TIF (or TIFF) Tagged Image