Inline Images

Following are IN-LINE IMAGE Examples

This Image is OPUS.GIF, which I obtained from another WWW page by clicking on it with the right mouse button and invoking a download:

The text line is centered with the image because the attribute ALIGN=CENTER was used.

This is that image after running it through the GIFTRANS.EXE translator to create OPUSNEW.GIF, per an example in my book:

giftrans -t #000 -o opusnew.gif opus.gif

That seemed to do nothing, so I used GIFTRANS.EXE to check the color index of OPUS2.GIF:

giftrans -l opus.gif

I had to use the "pause" button to catch the text as it scrolled by; piping it through MORE seemed to have no affect. That revealed that 16 colors (0 - 15) in the low range were used, as well the final 8 (248 - 255). I identified two colors in the index which were possibly the background color:

255   255 255 255 #ffffff
12    252 252 252 #fcfcfc

This is that image after running OPUS.GIF through the GIFTRANS.EXE translator to create OPUS2.GIF, changing color number 255 to transparent:

giftrans -t 255 -o opus2.gif opus.gif

This is that image after running OPUS.GIF through the GIFTRANS.EXE translator to create OPUS3.GIF, changing color number 12 to transparent:

giftrans -t 12 -o opus3.gif opus.gif

Therefore, I conclude of course that color number 12 must have been the 'white' background of the original OPUS.GIF. I would have liked to change the color code in index number 12 to be

12    207 207 207 #cfcfcf

in order to have it be light gray as well as transparent (in case the browser being used did not support transparency), but had no success running the commands:

giftrans -g 12=#cfcfcf -o opus4.gif opus.gif

giftrans -g #fcfcfc=#cfcfcf -o opus5.gif opus.gif

I found out about LVIEW31.EXE, as indicated below. I loaded it up and found that I could change the palette colors easily with it. I did not, however, find a way to set a color to be transparent. I believe that I discovered that the gray color used for default NETSCAPE backgound is 192 192 192. Here is OPUS5.GIF, for which I used LVIEW.EXE to reset palette entry 12 to:

12    192 192 192 #cfcfcf

Oh, well! I guess 192 192 192 is not the background color after all. I'll keep on checking.

A book I read later suggested 190 190 190... I'll have to try that...

11/9/96: I found another resource at America Online that indicated the background color should be 207 207 207. GIFTRANS.EXE is available here. There was also a reference on this page to a page about GIFTOOL.EXE and ANIMATE.EXE.

In any event, I then reran

giftrans -t 12 -o opus6.gif opus5.gif

to produce OPUS6.GIF, which is the same image with color 12 set as transparent:

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