pngpaste gif animation

pngpaste will only paste or base64 convert image data of the first frame of an animation.

It would be nice to output the entire file data, instead.

Nov 08 '21 22:11 martin-braun

@martin-braun (years later) do you have an example file?

Feb 08 '23 18:02 jcsalterego

Alright, copy this GIF animation:

Now, in the terminal it would be nice to do this to get the entire GIF animation back:

FILE=pngpaste_gif_test.html
echo '<html><body><img src="data:image/gif;base64,' > $FILE
pngpaste -b >> $FILE
echo '" /></body></html>' >> $FILE

Now if you open the file in the browser it will only show the first frame, instead of the whole animation. Same goes to creating a file directly, i.e. pngpaste mygif.gif.

Essentially, I'm asking for GIF animation support. This would be a huge benefit for me.

Feb 08 '23 21:02 martin-braun

@martin-braun I have a lead on this issue. By default, pngpaste will use the output filename to determine the final format, but with -b it defaults to PNG format, not GIF. Working on a new parameter -t <type> or -f <format> so -b -f gif should work. We'll see soon.

Feb 11 '23 16:02 jcsalterego