XnView Software

http://software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php

This program looks promising, a seemingly full featured freeware animated GIF editor that can assemble a GIF from existing images, create one from scratch, even edit frames with brush tools. I haven't tried it yet, so I can't report on how well it lives up to it's promises.

software.benetonfilms.com/Beneton_Movie_GIF.php
This program looks promising, a seemingly full featured freeware animated GIF editor

Yeah ... 7 MiB ... 2000/XP/Vista only ... "DirectY" also required

One more:

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/gifwcx.html

++ Seems to work better than XNVIEW for extraction, extracts full frames, while XN extracts difference bitmaps only
++ Can create animated GIF's also
++ OpenSource (C++ )
++ Not very bloated

-- Only as "packer" plugin for shareware TotalCommander

http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3722
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3901

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