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On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Hunter1972 wrote:

> Thank you, Bob,
> I am working with GM too, as per libtiff utilities I just wanted to
> know if there is something useful among them. If they are so antique
> then i will stop examining them.

The formats supported by these utilities date from 1988 or so (when 
they were originally developed).  As a result, the GIF reader supports 
version 87a but not version 89a, which is almost always used now. 
BMP suffers even worse since several major BMP versions have emerged 
since 1988.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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