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giflib

brew install giflib v6.1.3 MIT

C library and command-line utilities for reading, writing, and manipulating GIF images.

Why you might care

Giflib is the standard dependency for GIF support in many image processing pipelines and applications. Use it when building tools that need to decode/encode GIFs or when you need the `gifbuild`, `giftext`, `giftool` command-line utilities for batch GIF manipulation. It's lightweight, well-maintained, and handles both GIF87a and GIF89a formats.

Categories

library image-tool

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ImageMagick GraphicsMagick libpng libjpeg
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