Animated Gifs in Email
I want to attach animated gifs to my email messages. When I do, the images stay static and aren't animated.
My PC friends use Outlook Express to compose their email, and the animations work fine. I checked the information for Entourage and found that it doesn't support animated gifs. Does anyone know how to do this on the Mac, using Tiger 10.4.11?
Mulder,
I went to the site you mentioned, downloaded an animated GIF, and sent myself a test email. When it didn't work, I went back to that site's help menu and have copied what it said below:
"How to use animated GIF Images
For use in web pages: see Image Usage & Linking Policy
For use in Microsoft Outlook: In Outlook 2003 and earlier, an animated image can be incorporated into the email text, only when using the HTML format. Position the cursor at the point where the image is to appear and select Insert/Picture.
When using the Word editor for composing email messages, the image will not animate. Outlook 2007 does not support animation in any format.
For use in Microsoft PowerPoint: You should not have any issues inserting and viewing animated images."
I checked your response carefully and found that the only difference is that you have a signature set up for your emails, and I do not.
I went to the Eudora site and they support animated GIFs if you sign up for their "paid" program. I couldn't find out the cost anywhere and suspect that it shows up after you've downloaded the program. I'm not familiar with the Balzac client but will check it out. I don't compose my emails using HTML. I simply use the Mail program and format my text using the font and color menus. Is that how you do yours? (I'm still looking for that "extra ingredient" that you have [besides your brain] that makes yours work.)
Thanks again.
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I've made an animated gif using flash an am trying to make it
so the gif appears in my signature at the bottom of every email. I
can place it in the signature but when I send the email the gif is
static and doesn't move. Also I'm using a mac and when I recieve an
animated gif in an email from a PC the gif is also static. I need
to be able to send animated gifs in emails from PC and Mac using
Mircosoft Outlook for PC and Entourage for MAC. Any help would be
much appreciated.
Cheers,this really has nothing to do with flash at all - you have no
control over this as the recipient of
your email may not be using an email client that supports
animated gifs - does your gif work when
viewed ina web page?
you must realize there are a myriad ways people check email -
sometimes via a browser, handheld
device, email client software, etc...not all support animated
gifs and the ones that do may have
that option turned off by user.
i would consult the support section of the email software
your recipients use.
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Luke H wrote:
> I've made an animated gif using flash an am trying to
make it so the gif
> appears in my signature at the bottom of every email. I
can place it in the
> signature but when I send the email the gif is static
and doesn't move. Also
> I'm using a mac and when I recieve an animated gif in an
email from a PC the
> gif is also static. I need to be able to send animated
gifs in emails from PC
> and Mac using Mircosoft Outlook for PC and Entourage for
MAC. Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -
I have a gif file which is animated when it's sent to me from a windows user. The gif is actually 10 images and when animated, it shows a coyote walking. I can't seem to get it to animate when I send it. Ideally, I'd like to add it to my signiture. Any idea what's going on and how to do this?
Hi Marian,
I agree 100%...Unfortunately, We want to add a little bit of animations to our evites..nothing extravagant, but many of our in-house folks and clients use Outlook. We initially started to use the Word option, because we didn't want the emails to be just background images, as there were other issues.... but we couldn't send them as attachments either, as we wanted the evite to be in the body when they opened the e-mail, not an attachment. If you have any other suggestions about how we could use an animated gif in the body of an e-mail to show up in outlook, I am all ears!!! Of course, like Jeffery points out, if Outlook won't play them anyway, then we simply can't do it. I just have to believe there is some way to do this that will work for outlook as well???
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!
babs -
I was in a chat with microsoft and they said that because our outlook is run through an exchange server this may have something to do with why our gifs are not animated in emails we receive.
What can be done to fix this?
Thank you in advance for your help.Hi,
Which version of Outlook are you using?
If you are using Outlook 2007 or later version of Outlook, Outlook won’t display the animated gifs.
Only a static representation of the GIF image shows.
Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 use only Microsoft Office Word as the email editor while Outlook 2013 uses a Word-based email editor. Neither of the two email editors supports animated gifs.
For more information, please refer:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/wordhtml.htm
As a workaround to view animate gif images, we can view the email in Browser. To do this, double click to open the message, and then click
Actions button > View in Browser.
To make it easier, we can write a macro to directly display Outlook message in a browser, see:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/openinbrowser.htm
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Help with animated gif please!
Can you embed an animated gif into emails as a signature? i
have tried it in entourage and outlook, but the gif seems to stick
on the first frame. The animation works fine if viewed in a browser
etc. I have also made the email html format.
any ideas?Open your browser and browse to and select the animated GIF
image. Do you
see the animation? If not, then you have not properly
exported your GIF as
an animated one. What graphics program are you using?
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> You made an animated GIF in Fireworks, yes? yes
> It works? Animates as you wish? yes
> Then you insert it in DW and you see the image, yes?
no.no.no
> Static in DW (DW will NOT display the animation) but
when you preview the
> page
> in a browser it
> doesn't animate as expected? no, unfortunately not, or
else there would
> be no
> problem
>
> perhaps I am saving or exporting incorrectly. for the
animation previews
> clearly in fireworks, but then I dont get anything in
dreamweaver, neither
> static image on work page or animation in preview
> Please, I would appreciate a little clarity here for
this site has to be
> up
> tonight
> thanks for any help and explanations
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Animated Gif showing OK in Mac Email Body but not the PC
Hello,
Not sure where to post this (MAC or PC Photoshop forum), but I will try here first.
I have an animated gif that is placed in a Microsoft Word Document and then Sent from there, as an HTML e-mail.
This guarantees that the animated gif shows up in the body, not as an attachment.
All is well on the mac side, but the PC just shows the first frame...The animation doesn't work.
Does anyone know why?
I have checked on Outlook 2003 and 2010...no animation.
Thanks
babsHi Marian,
I agree 100%...Unfortunately, We want to add a little bit of animations to our evites..nothing extravagant, but many of our in-house folks and clients use Outlook. We initially started to use the Word option, because we didn't want the emails to be just background images, as there were other issues.... but we couldn't send them as attachments either, as we wanted the evite to be in the body when they opened the e-mail, not an attachment. If you have any other suggestions about how we could use an animated gif in the body of an e-mail to show up in outlook, I am all ears!!! Of course, like Jeffery points out, if Outlook won't play them anyway, then we simply can't do it. I just have to believe there is some way to do this that will work for outlook as well???
Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks!
babs -
I've recently downloaded several small sized animated .gif files on safari to the iphone camera roll, and I cannot email this file for whatever reason. I get "Saving file" when I "Email Photo" and it will continue saving the file in a loop, which is quite odd since the file is already saved on the iphone. This happens on any of the animated gif files I have on the phone. I figured since I can download that file rather quickly, is it the upload that is slowing things down? I have left some running for over 15 minutes with no avail. I have a 16GB iPhone 3GS. Has anyone else seen this? Thanks.
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Animated Gif showing OK on mac email, not PC after saving as webpage in word
Hello,
Not sure where to post this (MAC or PC Photoshop forum), but I will try here first.
I have an animated gif that is placed in a Microsoft Word Document and then Sent from there, as an HTML e-mail.
This guarantees that the animated gif shows up in the body, not as an attachment.
All is well on the mac side, but the PC just shows the first frame...The animation doesn't work.
Does anyone know why?
I have checked on Outlook 2003 and 2010...no animation.
Thanks
babsI think this is just the way things are.
I inserted an animated GIF in an Outlook 2003 eMail, for which I have configured Word 2003 to be the editor. It didn't animate while I was composing the eMail. I imagine this is because it's still a Word document at that point; it isn't converted to HTML until it's sent.
However, after I sent it (to myself), I can see the animation both in the preview pane of Outlook 2003 and if I double click the message to open it as an HTML message I see the animation as well. In Outlook, I have the following options set, which seem to be pertinent:
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Animated gif is tiling when opened on iPad email
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at</strong></font><strong><font color=”red” size="5" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" ><br>
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</body>
</html>Hi Tom
The email language is in English, and it is the only email source that seems to suffer from this issue. Its distributed weekly but I only noticed the problem a few months back - prior to that it was fine.
Ordinarily I wouldn't be too hung up about it as I can always read on another device or even log into my gmail from the safari browser (where it renders perfectly) - but given it displays without issue on the ipad, I was just curious to see if there was some config issue on the phone.
Have attached a screenshot to see if it helps. You'll see that the mail begins out normally in English and then deteriorates after a few sentences, possibly initially starting with the first use of the € Euro symbol.
Rgds
SPK -
Animated GIFs are ridiculously large - why?
Hi all,
I cannot figure out why the animated GIFs I am exporting are
so massive in file size. For example, I import a small 5-frame
650Byte GIF. I edit the size of the canvas to pad it to a square
(from 54x40 to 54x54, or something like that), then I save it with
the following settings:
Animated GIF
Exact Palette
0 Loss
4 Colours (5 including alpha channel)
No dither
And it comes out as 64.4KB. How can the file size increase by
100 times with barely any change? Even if I import it, change
nothing and save the file with the same settings as above, it's
still 64.4KB. Is Fireworks padding the file with unnecessary
information or something?
Thanks for any help,
John.> But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less
than 1KB big! So
> how
> does it increase in size 100 times when I save it
even if I don't
> change
> anything about the image before saving? There is no
PNG file but I can
> link
> you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF:
I'm confused. What is this I am looking at. What have you
done to it to
make it increase in weight?
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> But the original image is an animated GIF and it's less
than 1KB big! So
> how
> does it increase in size 100 times when I save it
even if I don't
> change
> anything about the image before saving? There is no
PNG file but I can
> link
> you to the original 650 Byte Animated GIF:
>
>
http://www.aotplaza.com/Prod.gif
>
> Is it something to do with my settings perhaps? Like
telling it to save
> extra
> information in the file?
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Importing .GIF into Fc will not play the animated gif in output
I imported a animated .gif (attached video.gif) into Fc (of a sequence of pics I took saved as an animated .gif)
It inported as a "bitmap image" and upon export to swf it did NOT show the .gif as an animated .gif but just shows the first frame..
(It did not put this file into an assests folder...)
So I converted the "bitmap image" into an optimaized graphic...and NOW it DOES put the original animated gif into the "assets" folder with a Graphic1.fxg and video.gif in that folder.. and If I open the gif in the assest folder it plays it as the animated .gif it is..
BUT SADLY upon export to SWF it still DOES not play the gif as an animated gif.. just the first frame...
Can I do anything in the code to tell the swf file that is exported to play the gif in the assest folder as an animated gif not just show the frame?
I did the animated gif approach becasue I setup a photoshop cs4 file with a quicktime video as a layer and Fc only brought in the first frame of the quicktime layer..
Could the next beta of Fc include the ability to import and play animated gifs as artwork as well AND/or to import Ps Cs4 video layers as videos
So I would have to created a video page in flash pro and import that as a object? into a state?
(no experience with flash pro but just bought cs4 and will try to learn FlashPro overweekend)Interesting. I don't think this is somethign you can do in Flash Catalyst. We have .GIF support in the Flash Player but I don't think you can use a GIF asset inside Catalyst. If you need that GIF to play you'll have to embed it using Flash Builder.
But Flash Catalyst will support video version 1.0. I don't think you can turn arbitrary layers into "video" layers but you can bring in video files (like .FLV) and then attach components to behaviors (like play, stop, etc).
=Ryan
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I've been intrigued by the new animated "postcards" or cinemagraphs (for example, see http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/gif). I found a great tutorial about how to do this using Photoshop Extended and the animation panel. I created my own, and then followed the instructions for saving the file:
1. "Save for Web and Devices"
2. make sure to save as GIF, looped "forever"
When I previewed the gif (from the "save for web and devices" dialog box), it worked great.
But when I save the gif, it doesn't move. It is just one frame of the animation, as a static photo. When I click the file, I get a "Preview" that shows all the frames, but I can't ever get it to move.
Is there a step I'm missing? Or is there some operating system setting I need to change? I've never created an animated gif before, but I can see other people's animated gifs in my email. (I'm attaching my gif in case you can figure it out from that.)
OKAY...I looked at the attachment, and it moves (my dog's eyes). This is the only time it has worked. I've tried to email it, post it on Tumblr, open it in my browser, but it never worked. Now, I post it here, and--at least as I look at the attachment--it works here. How can I get it to move when I post it online or try to send it via email?
I'm running Mac OSX 10.6, Photoshop CS 5.1.
Thank you!
CarolSome email clients disable animated GIFs.
Web sites like Tumblr that have image upload functions may further process your file during upload by removing its animated features. You could control this by hosting images on your own web site.
In general, animated GIF files are not ideal for emails because of their large size. GIF is an inefficient format for photorealistic animation/video. -
When I foward an animated GIF in an email it no longer animates. It wont animate in Preview either. Any suggestions?
yeah i was reading over some previous threads but i can't find one that actually helped. but some people were saying how it works perfectly fine on their nano argg
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I knew I was going to end up here eventually, stupid animated gifs.
First of all, I get weird drawing artifacts on an animated gif on jkd 1.5, I upped this to 1.6 and everything is cool with displaying the gif. It could be because I'm running JBuilder in a XP VM. I don't really care how to fix this, or if its even fixable, I'm just pointing it out.
I have an animated gif in an imageicon. The program is hangman, and the gif shows a stick figure walking up onto the podium to get hung. I would like to play the gif once, every time the "New Game" button is clicked. I have tried a variety of things to do so, including JLabel1.repaint(); calling the label again, etc, etc. I'll try to post the relevant bits of my code.
public class HangFrame
extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
public HangFrame()
try {
jbInit();
catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}jbinit calls the placement of all the items.
jLabel1.setBounds(new Rectangle(19, 57, 550, 400));
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (e.getSource() == start) {
start();
....'start' is my name for the button that reads "New Game".
The start method contains:
ImageIcon maingif = new ImageIcon( (ClassLoader.getSystemResource(
"hang1.gif")));
jLabel1.setIcon(maingif);
//I've been trying different stuff right here, like repaint.The image displays correctly, and runs once (per the setting I gave it in flash, or thats how java does it).
I've searched extensively (seems I got lucky by just managing to get it to display once :D). I saw that I might have to flush the image or something like that, but I'm not really sure what that means. I've never had any experience with the graphics and paint component, most of the work we do in class is console and algorithm stuff. I got bored over break and made my hangman into a swing app. I'd appreciate any help.
Oh, and sorry if this should be in the swing subforum, I figured my issue was too basic for it.
Edited by: rpk5000 on Dec 31, 2007 8:52 AMrpk5000 wrote:
This is where you're wrong. Dipshits like you post **** like this all the time when it's readily available information that can be searched for WITHOUT >hosing up our forums.Great, give me a link, or even a search term to use on google or these forums. Before you give me search terms, you might want to actually check and make sure the answer is somewhere there...are you out of your freakin mind?!?!?!
go to google and type "java gif animation"
you think you're the first person to want to do this?!?!
moreover, search the forums here
you think you're the first person to ask for this here?!?!
You would think "repainting an imageicon animated gif java" would give a page that has the answer on it within the first 10 results but....
I'm looking for a page that simply says, take your imageicon and call.... (repaint();) or whatever to make it run one more time.Did you even read the API for ImageIcon! It took me 2 seconds to find the information for animating gifs as imageicons.
Well Java just sucks now doesn't it. Stop using animated gifs and Java since they suck. There, problem solved!I like Java a lot, I'm just saying, in certain instances it seems to fall short.No, YOU fall short. I found the solution in 3 seconds.
This is a "New to Java" subforum, if you can't handle helping people in a pleasant manner, that shows you respect the other person, what do you think people will think of you and java. If I spent more time on forums like this, and was looking at which language to try, I doubt I would pick java.I don't care what you think of me OR Java. I'm tired of noobs wasting forum resources with this crap. Once I was new to everything, but I went to the library and when the internet came along i learned how to search it!
Critical thinking people. Don't we teach this in schools any more?!
When it becomes an Internet joke (http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/plz-email-me-teh-codez.aspx) about how bad the sun forums are, well, you really need to reconsider what you want to do with your life.
LMAO! You are the daily WTF!
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Animated Gif won't stop looping!
I'll try to format my question as best I can.
I have created a Java chat applet, and for the Java chat, I have created a "ChatPane" class for displaying the chat. ChatPane is an extension of Canvas, and every time the paint() method is called, the program loops through visible lines of text drawing them on a buffer image, then draws the buffer on the screen.
My problem lies in animated gifs. In my chatroom, chatters can type textual symbols that will be replaced with an image (or emoticon). I have created my animated icons in a popular animated gif editing program, and I have set particular icons to loop 3 times. The problem is that when the animated icon is displayed in my applet, the animation -doesn't stop- after 3 loops, it loops forever! I can't for the life of me figure out why! Can anyone provide any insight as to why the animations won't stop after 3 loops? The animations work just fine if displayed in a browser by themselves (they stop looping after 3 times)
Thank you for any help!
[email protected]
Tony N.From what I understand of your problem;
- You have made your own animated gifs
- With the software to make these gifs you have set them to loop their animations 3 times
- They loop continuously
I don't see how java can be expected to interpret the animated gif software instructions to loop only 3 times and would assume that there are various proprietry ways of setting this (an assumption based on applets /javascript etc, that rely on the client-side browser interpreter). So, if you loop your animated gif or have any form of animated gif that you import into your program with getDocumentBase /getCodeBase as a (pre-animated) gif, then this is exactly what I would assume would happen.
The answer is to seperate your images with eg;-
smiley1[0];
smiley1[1];
smiley1[2];
run a seperate thread, cycle through them as you wish and stop.
I'm fairly sure that there is nothing in either the swing libraries or the jmf libraries that can resolve this any other way, so your choices are write extra code and have a pool of threads to control this, or leave it as is.
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