Animated gif issue in IE

I use Fireworks MX 2004 at work to create animated banners
and I have
come across a problem that I hadn't seen before.
When I create the animated gif in Fireworks the gif displays
perfectly
in Netscape, Mozilla, etc but in IE it has a 1 px slice left
from the
first frame on the other frames.
I tried moving the slice, slicing again, etc to no avail...
I had to use ImageReady to create the animation again using
the
exported gifs from each frame to make it display correctly in
IE.
Has anybody come across this problem and has anybody found a
solution?
Thanks,
FayeC

On Thu, 04 May 2006 14:50:54 +0400, FayeC
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Fireworks MX 2004 at work to create animated
banners and I have
> come across a problem that I hadn't seen before.
> When I create the animated gif in Fireworks the gif
displays perfectly
> in Netscape, Mozilla, etc but in IE it has a 1 px slice
left from the
> first frame on the other frames.
> I tried moving the slice, slicing again, etc to no
avail...
> I had to use ImageReady to create the animation again
using the
> exported gifs from each frame to make it display
correctly in IE.
> Has anybody come across this problem and has anybody
found a solution?
Never seen anything like this before. Try to fiddle with
"Auto Crop" and
"Auto Difference" options in "Export Preview". For me, FW
always did
difference perfectly but who knows, maybe the source of the
problem is
here somewhere.
Ilya Razmanov
http://photoshop.msk.ru -
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