[Landy Roman]
can gimp be used to convert a jpg to gif? if not what tool is outthere that can do it
As others replied already, you might consider `.png' instead of `.gif'. Besides `gimp', which can convert between many formats, I used `convert' from ImageMagick, a combination of tools from `PBMplus', and the `pilfile' utility that comes with the Python Imaging Library. Even if some of the above can produce `.gif' files, they might not produce them in compressed form (as this is not legal to do so, because of patent problems), so the produced `.gif' are not always the best you could hope. I think I vaguely remember having produced `gif' through ImageMagick, and later compressed them through PBMplus, but this was many years ago. Today, I just never produce `.gif', and use `.png' as a portable format. I much appreciate `.png' because it can conveys 8-bit alpha channels (while `.gif' are limited to 1-bit alpha channels - which is rather rough for an approximation). -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard