GIF file type giving a strange error

[mrallgames]

I'm working with saving an image as a gif, using an indexed palette. When I save it as a gif, it opens fine but the issue arises when I try to analyze it. The analyzer says it cannot read the file. 

 

The specific issue stems from a program that reads the colours and pixels in the image and converts them to locations for purpose of making pixel comments in video games. The program can't read gif files made in paint.net but works just fine with gif's made in GIMP.

 

I attached a gif file I made in paint.net so you can analyze for yourself.

[null54]

33 minutes ago, mrallgames said:

The specific issue stems from a program that reads the colours and pixels in the image and converts them to locations for purpose of making pixel comments in video games.

 

Without knowing what program you are referring to it will be hard to diagnose this.

Paint.NET uses the GIF saving code that is built-in to Windows (Windows Imaging Component), and GIMP uses its own GIF saving code.

[Rick Brewster]

"Analyze" ? "The analyzer" ? "The program" ? No idea what you're referring to. You have to be specific, we're not psychic.

[Pixey]

2 hours ago, mrallgames said:

 

I attached a gif file I made in paint.net

 

This is not a Gif file, just an image.

[AndrewDavid]

@Pixey

right click - save as - see the .gif extension?

[Pixey]

39 minutes ago, AndrewDavid said:

right click - save as - see the .gif extension?

 

I thought a .gif was supposed to move?  Doesn't for me 🤔

[AndrewDavid]

I think he saved it like that - i layer only

[Tactilis]

1 hour ago, Pixey said:

I thought a .gif was supposed to move?

Only if it is an animated GIF.



 

[Pixey]

47 minutes ago, Tactilis said:

Only if it is an animated GIF.

 

So I learned something today, after I looked GIF up 😬

 

"GIF images are widely used on the Web because the format is compressed and takes up less space."  😁

 

(I'd assumed they were all animated).  

[Tactilis]

5 minutes ago, Pixey said:

So I learned something today, after I looked GIF up 😬

But how do you pronounce GIF?

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=GIF+pronunciation

 

Let the arguments begin.

[BoltBait]

1 hour ago, Tactilis said:

Let the arguments begin.

 

This has been long settled.

[BlastOfBN]

@BoltBait

And I thought I was the only one to acknowledge that the creators of the GIF format specifically made its pronunciation to mimic that of Jif peanut butter.

 

PB&J, anyone? 🥪

 

P.S. There wasn’t a sandwich emoji that depicts a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, so…