[magick-users] Animated GIF stop/start question

[Scott]

On Monday 29 October 2007 9:38:06 am rhubarbpie at poetworld.net 
wrote:
> I've generated drawn images using PerlMagick and combined them
> into an animated looping GIF.  However, is there a way to
> generate the GIF with a stop/freeze/pause option(s)?  In
> explanation, the GIF shows a moving part and being able to
> stop and review an individual frame would be helpful.  This
> may be a standard feature of animated GIFs of which I'm
> unaware.
>
> If the above isn't possible, is it possible to generate the
> GIF to advance manually?

GIF animations are not interactive. There may be software that 
lets you do what you want, but I'm not aware of any program that 
does that. You can set the timing on individual frames of the 
animation so that it pauses at particular points for a specified 
time, but beyond that, I don't think you will find what you want 
in GIF.
-- 
Scott
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