I don't think that loss of GIF is that bad. I, for one, never use GIF
with POV. It supports only 8 bit color. And why is PNG the only other
option? What about PICT? It's a great format. Or JPEG? Why does anyone use
GIF anyway?
                   
                               David McCabe
                          dav### [at] maccom

> From: Anybody <any### [at] nirvananet>
> Newsgroups: 
> povray.general,povray.macintosh,povray.unofficial.patches,povray.windows
> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:22:56 +0200
> Subject: Re: Announce: MegaPov 0.5a available.
> 
> Chris Huff wrote:
>> 
>> In article <3938985b@news.povray.org>, "Mark Wagner"
>> <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote:
>> 
>>> That's the .pot format.  There are exactly two programs in the world that
>>> support it: POV-Ray, and Fractint.
>> 
>> GraphicConverter(a Mac image editor) will open them, but it seems(at
>> first glance, anyway) to treat them as ordinary GIF images.
> 
> Actually the .pot format _is_ in gif format. The pictures are only twice
> as width as the original picture, because the high 8 bits of the 16bit
> picture are stored in the second half of the picture.

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