For a more complete discussion of this issue, see Graphics Interchange Format.

Short for 'Graphics Interchange Format', a GIF is a type of image file.

All patents on the LZW worldwide have also expired (see Graphics Interchange Format).

Comparison to Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)

Graphics Interchange Format (or GIF), whose prescribed pronunciation was intentionally a play on Jif.

The Graphics Interchange Format (often shortened to GIF) is a file format for images.

At issue is software encoded in the popular Graphics Interchange Format - or GIF - file format.

In 1999, for example, Unisys began pursuing patent royalties on the mechanism used in the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF standard.

A GIF, short for Graphics Interchange Format, is a lightweight image format that's useful for creating simple frame-by-frame animations.

It is possible to convert copies of your existing TIFF files into a smaller, more Internet-friendly format, like the graphics interchange format, or GIF.

FXG was planned as a graphics interchange format for cross-application file support, to be used by Adobe Flash and Adobe Flash Player.

GIF - CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format (openly published specification, but patent-encumbered by a 3rd party; became free when patents expired in 2004)

GIF: Support for decoding and rendering compressed Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) images, in its single-frame variants only.

However, many people pronounce GIF with a hard "G", as in a 'gift' , reflecting the way it is pronounced in its own acronym (Graphics Interchange Format).

Graphics Interchange Format Java Archives (GIFAR) is malware that allows an attacker to piggy back off the victim's HTTP cookies.

The JPEG format is superior to GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) for photographs because it can display more colors than GIF files, which are limited to 256 colors.

RLE may also be used to refer to an early graphics file format supported by CompuServe for compressing black and white images, but was widely supplanted by their later Graphics Interchange Format.

Most forums use a small JPEG (Joint Photographics Experts Group) file or a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) file to display small image next to the posts made by the user.

For instance, the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format was largely introduced to avoid the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) patent problems, and Ogg Vorbis to avoid MP3.

Abstracts are available free online for almost all articles, and full scanned articles are available in Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and Portable Document Format (PDF) for older articles.

A. With their small file-size and ability to display up to 256 colors, images in the Graphics Interchange Format (also known as GIF) are often used on Web pages and embedded within e-mail messages because they can be downloaded quickly.

The motivation for creating the PNG format was in early 1995, after it had come to light that the Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) data compression algorithm-used in the Graphics Interchange Format format-had been patented by Unisys.

GIF - CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format (the specification's royalty-free license requires implementers to give CompuServe credit as owner of the format; separately, patents covering certain aspects of the specification were held by Unisys until they expired in 2004)

It features graphics interchange formats and animation of her album artwork, and depicts the singer singing seductively to the camera and scenes from her flip-cam, framed by stars, greeting card flower decorations and English words written in Arabic abjadiya or A, B, Cs.