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Bug 675662 - Support saving as .gif file
Support saving as .gif file
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 545578
Product: eog
Classification: Core
Component: image viewer
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: EOG Maintainers
EOG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-05-08 10:09 UTC by Jakob Runge
Modified: 2012-05-12 10:25 UTC
See Also:
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Description Jakob Runge 2012-05-08 10:09:12 UTC 
When viewing a .gif file in eog and trying to save it to da different location
via 'Save as' I get the following error message:
'File format is unknown or unsupported'
'Image Viewer could not determine a supported writable file format based on the filename.
Please try a different file extension like .png or .jpg.'
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-05-08 10:59:01 UTC 
GIF is not supported as far as I know, plus it's not a format that I would recommend to use.
Comment 2 Jakob Runge 2012-05-08 13:21:47 UTC 
1.: I can view GIF with eog, so I would count that as supported.
2.: I don't recommend using GIF either, but if you got a bunch of files why not look trough them first, saving the ones you need first and afterwards converting them?
Also: how does not recommending GIF make a reason for not being able to save it when it's displayed in the first place?
3.: What does 'Save as' do different than simply copying the content if it didn't change? So why should this be limited to any kind of files if the file loads in the first place?
Comment 3 Felix Riemann 2012-05-12 10:25:37 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> 1.: I can view GIF with eog, so I would count that as supported.

We explicitly distinct between formats we can read and write as we depend on GdkPixbuf support for this right now.

> 2.: I don't recommend using GIF either, but if you got a bunch of files why not
> look trough them first, saving the ones you need first and afterwards
> converting them?
> Also: how does not recommending GIF make a reason for not being able to save it
> when it's displayed in the first place?
> 3.: What does 'Save as' do different than simply copying the content if it
> didn't change? So why should this be limited to any kind of files if the file
> loads in the first place?

Well, that's the problem we have due to the distinction above.

Actually the menu is missing something like an "Save a (unmodified) Copy" which would handle this case. This is not limited to GIFs. SVGs have the same limitation for example.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 545578 ***