GIFMaker

This is the Read Me file for GIFMaker written by its author, Brian Ogilvie.

GIFMaker is a Newton extension that allows you to create GIF images of all or part of the Newton screen. By using GIFServe you can make your Newton-based web page unique! Once you are serving GIFs from your Newton, you can save the GIFs in your desktop browser using the usual Save Image command.

With GIFMaker, you can set the foreground and background colors by tapping on the GIFMaker icon in the Extensions folder of the Extras Drawer. A set of sliders for Red, Green, and Blue for each of foreground and background are provided. The default is black images on a white background.

To use GIFServer with Newton Personal Data Sharing, just access:

http://your.newtons.ip.addr/screen/anyname.gif

The GIF format is owned by Compuserve while the LZW compression used in GIFs is patented by Unisys Corp. Toad Hollow Software Co. acknowledges the great generosity of these firms in making the GIF format and the LZW compression available royalty free for freeware programs such as GIFMaker.

If you are a Newton programmer and are interested in writing programs that use GIFMaker, please contact Toad Hollow at the address below. All programs using GIFMaker must be freeware.

Toad Hollow's other Newton applications are also available on our web page including the Holidays series, Jewish Holidays (1996-2001), TMap (a map of the Boston Subway), Freedom Trail (a guide to Boston's historic walking trail), and The Elements of Style, a re-publishing of the 1918 edition of William Strunk's little black book of grammar, with full hypertext links!

Brian K. Ogilvie Toad Hollow Software Co.toadhollow@pobox.comhttp://www.pobox.com/~toadhollow/