AnimGifViewer

Preview and explore step by step animated GIF images.

AnimGifViewer has been developed by De Luminae to enable users to play animated gif files and also to explore them step-by-step, in particular images created by RadSunpath. We could not find an easy to use and understandable animated images gif viewers on Internet, which can explore images embedded in animation one by one, and decided to create one.

Interface enables easy and undrestandable animated gif images opening and also simple opening with images Drag'n'Drop. Files can be "played" as an animation, or explored as step by step images with simple buttons or mouse wheel.
Option "Save frame as" enables saving of current image frame in various image formats (GIF,BMP,JPG and PNG).

To make AnimGifViewer accessible to greater number of potential users program is developed for Windows and Linux based platforms.

AnimGifViewer under GPL license so that anyone can freely use, distribute, and modify it.
So feel free to use, correct and improve it !

Requirements and installation

AnimGifViewer program can be installed in Unix/Linux based operating systems and in Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP.

Below are given requirements and installation information for both versions of program.

Installation from binaries (Windows only)
To install AnimGifViewer program follow next procedure:

1. Double-click on AnimGivViewer-1.0-Setup.exe file to start AnimGifViewer installation program.
2. Follow all steps in installation program. Default installation path depends of type of user who is installing the program: administrator, limited user or guest user. If you install AnimGifViewer as Administrator, the program will be available for all users. If you install as normal user, AnimGifViewer will only be available for this user. As Guest the program can not be installed.
3. Program icon will be added to Desktop and Start Menu. Program can be started with double-click on the icon.
4. To uninstall program use Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs utility or uninstall program from Start menu, AnimGifViewer submenu.

Once program is installed, no additional software is needed to be able to run it and explore animated gif images.

MSVCP71.dll or other MSVC***.dll

These dll files are often are already included in MS Windows OS, but sometimes they aren't :)
Since licensing for distribution of these dll files is not quite clear on Internet, and they can be freely downloaded, we haven't included them in our program distribution.

Installation from sources (Linux and Windows)
AnimGifViewer source code distribution can be installed on both Linux and Windows platforms. Before you can install AnimGifViewer, the complementary packages listed below (see requirements) need to be installed.

To install it follow the procedure below:

Linux OS

1. Open archive animgifviewer-1.0.tar.gz
   tar xvzf animgifviewer-1.0.tar.gz.
2. In directory animgifviewer-1.0, log as a root user and execute command
   python setup.py install
3. Program will be installed in site-packages subdirectory in Python directory and it is available to all users with command animgifviewer
4. To uninstall the program you can use script uninstall-animgifviewer as root user.

Windows OS

1. Open archive animgifviewer-1.0.zip with some of standard Windows archive programs.
2. Open Command Prompt window (Start menu->Run, type cmd and press "OK"), position yourself in animgifviewer-1.0 directory and run the command
   python setup.py install
3. Program will be installed in Lib/site-packages subdirectory in Python directory, and animgifviewer script will be in Scripts subdirectory in Python directory.
   Create shortcut to animgifviewer script, and use it to open the program (with python).
4. To uninstall the program you can use script uninstall-animgifviewer.

Requirements

To run AnimGifViewer installed from source code distribution next programs/libraries are required:

1. Python, version 2.4 or above;
2. wxPython, version 2.6.x or above;
3. Python Imaging Library - PIL