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Happy New 2010!

Max — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:56:44 +0000

Hello APNG fans, and Happy New Year!

I’m Max and I’ll be managing animatedpng.com now.
As you might have noticed, some of the info on the site is updated already.
Notably APNG Assembler is at version 2.0 now, and is able to generate highly optimized APNGs. Also more software is presented at the apng editors page, with nice screenshots. You should expect more new stuff in the near future – news, articles, tips, software and samples.

Here’s for the 10s, the APNG decade!

Max.

Looking for CONTRIBUTERS!!!

webmaster — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:49:38 +0000

We are looking fro people who like to contribute to the AnimatedPNG project. If you would like to submit apng’s, articles, tutorials, or anything please contact : newstop (a) gmail dot com , brotherbrendan (a) gmail dot com.

Applications that work with APNGs

webmaster — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:52:24 +0000

Just thought this list would be use or interest to some of you.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0 (and other Gecko-based products) and later
Opera 9.5 and later
XnView, graphic and photo viewer, converter, organizer
KSquirrel, an image viewer for Linux
Imagine, Image & Animation Viewer for Windows
APNG Plug-In for GIMP
APNG Plug-In for Paint.NET
gif2apng command-line converter
apngasm command-line apng assembler
apngdis command-line apng disassembler
TweakPNG 1.4.0
VirtualDub APNG Mod with APNG/MNG support
Animated PNG Manager by Yin Yang
APNG Anime Maker
Justin Dolske’s APNG Edit 1.5, a Firefox add-on
Animat, a Firefox add-on
GIF Movie Gear
Animated PNG Writer for ImageJ
jtvmaker, Maple slideshow builder
GifToAPNG Java Converter
Holger’s SVG2PNG
Reto Hoehener’s japng
Online APNG assembler 2.0

APNG Campaign

webmaster — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:25:32 +0000

Since we launched this almost a month ago we have been inundated with feedback, mostly good . We have also been receiving close to 4000 visits a day, seems there is definitely in interest in this technology, for good or bad!

A few thoughts have come to my mind, perhaps we need to consider campaigning apng’s within the open source community as well as web designers/developers. It would be interesting to see if this technology will be adapted by software like Gimp and Inkscape. Imagine a built in apng tool that would allow to optimize, sequence, and assemble apng’s.

I would also like to see how creative we can be with apng’s without over doing it, which seems to be the biggest question on peoples minds. I think if we can keep file sizes down and implement apng’s in a useful way, like navigation, simple ads, interface design, logos, etc., then perhaps there is a chance that other will begin to adopt and take advantage of this technology.

Let’s face it, png’s are better than gif ‘s, so why are we sitting on the fence?

So, for those apng enthusiasts out there, let’s spread the word and see what happens.

-Brendan

APNG Updates

webmaster — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:35:57 +0000

Over the weekend PHUG members began a re-development project of the APNG site. We received over 4000 visits in the last few days, which lead to an enormous amount of valuable feedback.

We will be continuing our efforts to maintain the most up-to-date information/documentation associated with APNGs, and include a variety of workshops, tutorials and samples as references to this new specification.

We are always looking for contributors to this project including both designers and developers. We encourage everyone to let us know what they would like to see on the site and further developments with this project.

Please contact us at info@phug.ca.