Re: Callouts in Graphics

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Thanks for the reminder.  I think maybe I used to know this, but 
it's been a long time and the only firsthand experience I ever had 
with the matter was when the company that makes one of my 
SW tools sent out a bulletin to their users back in 1995 stating 
that GIF support was being dropped from the new version of
their product because they had received a letter from 
Compuserve demanding that they sign a license agreement 
and pay royalties for the continued use of the GIF format.  
I presumed, perhaps unwisely, that they knew who was trying
to squeeze them.  The company is currently working on the beta
for a new rev, and there's no sign of GIF support anywhere in
it, but that might just be because nobody has been jumping up
and down insisting that it be restored.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: Callouts in Graphics