Can Xara Pro X9 crop a GIF?

**Contours** · 22 May 2014, 10:30 PM

I haven't determined a way to upload the GIF ... so here it is in a ZIP file.

**Egg Bramhill** · 22 May 2014, 10:54 PM

Here you go.

**Contours** · 23 May 2014, 12:55 AM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Here you go.

??? The image you posted is displayed as a JPG by my browser ... just like the one I posted (twice).

Does it display as an animated GIF with your browser?

**Egg Bramhill** · 23 May 2014, 01:23 AM

Refresh your browser Contours, we're cross posting

**Egg Bramhill** · 23 May 2014, 01:37 AM

My previous post dissappeared. Your gif is 2Mb far to large for TG You can view the gif HERE:

**theinonen** · 23 May 2014, 06:42 AM

Here is a quick test.

Image cropped to 640x480 size and palette changed to websafe 216 colours. Working fine and less than 60 kb.

**Contours** · 23 May 2014, 08:36 PM

Originally Posted by theinonen

Here is a quick test.

Image cropped to 640x480 size and palette changed to websafe 216 colours. Working fine and less than 60 kb.

What tool did you use to crop? Xara?

The color option I used with GIFCam was "Quantize" ... which seemed to provide the most capability. But I doubt if my example had more than a dozen colors.

I'll try generating it with colors=256.

**theinonen** · 24 May 2014, 08:17 AM

No, I did not use Xara for the cropping.

I used utility called interGif to extract invidual frames from the GIF file and the cropping was done in a software called Compo.

Little script did all the work and automatically cropped all the images in a directory and then saved those back into another directory. Finally InterGif was used again to combine all the frames together for the final image. (For cropping, it was easiest to change canvas to a specific size, position image and then save the canvas area as GIF.)