Hi Robert,

Robert Covington wrote:

> >>Out of curiosity, does the GIF playing code that ships with FB3 play animated
> >>gifs?  Anyone know what UNISYS currently requires in the way of licensing
> >>to include that capability in a commercial application?  I just want to read
> >>them, not write them.
>
> You don't need a license to read them, only for writing them.
>
> Big mess, all that. :o)
>
> Guess Apple didn't want to license it either, since Quicktime doesn't
> export GIF's.

Which may be a good reason to keep AppleWorks 5 around, since you
can save both Drawings and Painting as GIFs; whereas AW6 doesn't have
that ability.  Plus you can save AW6 Docs as AW5 Docs in case you need to.

Joe Wilkins