animated gif

Does ppviewer support animated gifs. If I burn a CD with viewer included it does not play the animated gif

Thanks

The 97 viewer no, the 2003 viewer yes

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"ramin" wrote in message
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Does ppviewer support animated gifs. If I burn a CD with viewer included it
does not play the animated gif

Thanks

I didn't have a file here to test with, so I created one and I confirmed
that if you are using PowerPoint 2003 Viewer and your GIF is set for 1
cycle, it has the same bug that PowerPoint 2003 has and it won't animate.

If you open the GIF file in animation software such as Animation Shop by
Jasc and you change the number of times that it is to play to 2, it will
play once in both PowerPoint 2003 and the PowerPoint 2003 Viewer. Both seem
to misread or misinterpret the number in the header of the file and they
play it one less time than you specify. Sooooo....1 - 1 = 0, while 2 - 1 =
1.
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"ramin" wrote in message
...
Does ppviewer support animated gifs. If I burn a CD with viewer included
it does not play the animated gif

Thanks