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Bug 680412 - save as gif fails
save as gif fails
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 545578
Product: eog
Classification: Core
Component: image viewer
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: EOG Maintainers
EOG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-07-22 21:05 UTC by rob cain
Modified: 2012-07-22 21:35 UTC
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Description rob cain 2012-07-22 21:05:38 UTC 
opened animated gif file 'mypic.gif' file - ok - views, automates - ok
save as 'mynewpic.gif' - says: 

"
File format is unknown or unsupported

Image Viewer could not determine a supported writeable file format based on the filename.
Please try a different file extension like .png or .jpg.
"

in this day and age? surely gentlemen, it should work...
Comment 1 rob cain 2012-07-22 21:19:08 UTC 
ps: also already raised as a ubutu launchpad bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/614936
 - but they seem to think its one of yours.
Comment 2 Felix Riemann 2012-07-22 21:35:30 UTC 
I took a look into the Ubuntu report and there's actually two different use cases involved here:

1. Saving a file as a GIF image, for example a modified GIF or a from another format. This would be bug 539138, which appears unlikely to be fixed.

2. Saving an unmodified GIF file to another name, aka. "Save a Copy" being bug 545578.

Marking this a duplicate to the latter one to not make noise on an already closed and dead bug.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 545578 ***