Playing GIFs?

Dynamyk

macrumors 6502a

Original poster

• Aug 24, 2005

• #1

What program do you use to view an animated .GIF image.

 

MacDawg

Moderator emeritus

• Aug 24, 2005

• #2

You can use any web browser, just drop the file on your browser icon in the dock and watch it.

Woof, Woof – Dawg

 

emw

macrumors G4

• Aug 24, 2005

• #3

You can also use Preview, but you have to go to View > Customize Toolbar... and add the Play tool.

 

dops7107

macrumors 6502a

• Aug 24, 2005

• #4

If you have Adobe ImageReady you can see each frame individually, as well as play the whole thing. Not sure what other apps let you do this.

 

DeSnousa

macrumors 68000

• Aug 24, 2005

• #5

dops7107 said:

If you have Adobe ImageReady you can see each frame individually, as well as play the whole thing. Not sure what other apps let you do this.

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Preview also lets do this.

 

Mitthrawnuruodo

Moderator emeritus

• Aug 24, 2005

• #6

GifBuilder, an old application I stumbled across the other day, will also "play" the gif either continuous or step by step.

 

Mitthrawnuruodo

Moderator emeritus

• Aug 24, 2005

• #7

emw said:

You can also use Preview, but you have to go to View > Customize Toolbar... and add the Play tool.

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DeSnousa said:

Preview also lets do this.

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This option is only available in Preview 2, which came with Panther. Preview 3 in Tiger seems to be missing this option, too, just like the Target size for exported jpegs... I'm beginning to be real p*ssed at Apple for their crippling of Preview... 😡

Luckily I saved Preview 2 from the Previous System folder after archive & installing Tiger, so I have both versions... 😎

 

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Yvan256

macrumors 603

• Aug 24, 2005

• #8

Quicktime can also play animated GIFs.

A bit off-topic, but is there any way to prevent Safari from doing the animation from animated GIFs? (I want it to show the first/whatever frame).

Animations makes it nearly impossible for me to read some pages (a lot of people have animated avatars on macrumors, for exemple).

Yes, I browse with java and plug-ins disabled. Animated GIFs are the last problem I can't get rid of (no option to disable them in Safari).

 

MacDawg

Moderator emeritus

• Aug 24, 2005

• #9

Yvan256 said:

Animations makes it nearly impossible for me to read some pages (a lot of people have animated avatars on macrumors, for exemple).

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Do you really feel that animated .gifs make it nearly impossible to read MacRumors? I never thought they were that bad. Some are little excessive, but overall I don't find it distracting.

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

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Yvan256

macrumors 603

• Aug 24, 2005

• #10

MacDawg said:

Do you really feel that animated .gifs make it nearly impossible to read MacRumors? I never thought they were that bad. Some are little excessive, but overall I don't find it distracting.

Woof, Woof - Dawg

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I really can't read anything if there's animation on the screen. I have to right-click so the animations stop, and then I can read. I actually browse with java and plug-ins disabled for that reason.

It's even listed as a mistake of web design on Jakob Nielsen's website.