Why don't animated GIFs open in Preview now?

Before updating to Yosemite, animated GIFS opened in Preview. Now, I get a box telling me that it may be damaged or use a file format that Preview doesn't recognize. I have never had any issues before, and these are all images used before. Please advise.

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Viewing Animated GIF files in Preview

Hello...
I'm trying to figure out why I cannot view animated GIF files within Preview. When I search within Preview's help I get this...
*1. Open the animated GIF file in Preview.*
*2. If the window's drawer isn't already visible, choose View > Drawer.*
*The drawer contains a thumbnail image for the animated GIF. The number of frames in the animation appears in the lower-right corner.*
*3. Click the triangle beside the thumbnail image.*
*Preview shows all the frames in the animated GIF. When you click a frame, the animation stops and Preview displays that frame.*
Now at the end of number 3 it states that "the animation stops", so according to that statment Preview should be "playing" the animation until I click a certain frame to stop it. Well mine doesn't do this, SO what's going on?
Oh, my OS is v10.4.10 and Preview is v3.0.9(409).
Thanks!

Preview in Panther did play animated gifs, although it was a bit clunky at it. Evidently they intended to fix this in Tiger, but instead they ended up breaking it completely. To play an animated gif you now need to do so in a browser, such as Safari. Preview no longer plays them at all.
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Why is an animated GIF not appearing on my webpage?

I have succesfully built a site that is ready for publication. The client submitted an ad for one of his suppliers that he wants to promote. It is an animated GIF from AVG.
I placed it on the home page. It looks great. It shows up in previews. When I publish the site online, the GIF does not display. If I export the site as HTML and view the files locally, the file appears as it should.
When I view the online version on Firefox, there is no GIF file visible. When I use Chrome to view the site, the GIF is there. The client says for him it's vice versa. Firefox shows the GIF, but Chrome does not.
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Yes, its there. Also, when I right click on the image and select VIEW IMAGE INFO it will replay. thx

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Why doesn't Preview.app show me animated .gifs?

I made an animated .gif with Macromedia Fireworks and it opens up perfect on a Windows Platform. But on my MacBook only the first frame opens and stays still as a single image.
Once I open the .gif, in the Preview's Drawer, it shows me all of the single images that are supposed to be seen continously as an animation. But I repeat, no animation is played back.
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This is from the preview help document. What you are seeing is what is described for preview.
Viewing animated GIFs
An animated GIF is a graphic file that shows a short animation. Preview lets you look at each frame in the animation as an individual still image.
Open the animated GIF file in Preview.
If the window's drawer isn't already visible, choose View > Drawer.
The drawer contains a thumbnail image for the animated GIF. The number of frames in the animation appears in the lower-right corner.
Click the triangle beside the thumbnail image.
Preview shows all the frames in the animated GIF. When you click a frame, the animation stops and Preview displays that frame.
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Animated Gif Problem

Greetings
I would appreciate some help.
I am new at creating animated gif's, and am experiencing a
problem with them when I try to view them in a browser.
I am working in Fireworks 2004, the following is what I do.
Create first frame.
Insert simple arrow.
Create second frame
Insert simple arrow with diffrent color
Third frame same but diffrent image.
Set the Optimize Panel to Animated Gif, transparency set to
No tranparency.
Click on File, Export.
Type the name of the file in File Name box.
Select "Frames to Files" option for Save as type option.
In my folder where I saved the files there are now three gif
files.
When I open the file into the following browsers IE 7, 6.0 or
Firefox it remains as a static image in the browser with no
animation, the same is for viewing it in Window Explorer Preview
Pane.
In Fireworks however the animation plays perfectly.
I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what I
am doing wrong or why they created animated gifs are not playing in
the browser.
Regards
Dave

Instead of Frames to files on export, select Images only.
that should do it -
alex
revbear wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I would appreciate some help.
>
> I am new at creating animated gif's, and am experiencing
a problem with them
> when I try to view them in a browser.
>
> I am working in Fireworks 2004, the following is what I
do.
>
> Create first frame.
> Insert simple arrow.
> Create second frame
> Insert simple arrow with diffrent color
> Third frame same but diffrent image.
>
> Set the Optimize Panel to Animated Gif, transparency set
to No tranparency.
>
> Click on File, Export.
> Type the name of the file in File Name box.
> Select "Frames to Files" option for Save as type option.
>
> In my folder where I saved the files there are now three
gif files.
>
> When I open the file into the following browsers IE 7,
6.0 or Firefox it
> remains as a static image in the browser with no
animation, the same is for
> viewing it in Window Explorer Preview Pane.
>
> In Fireworks however the animation plays perfectly.
>
> I would really appreciate it if someone could tell me
what I am doing wrong or
> why they created animated gifs are not playing in the
browser.
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
>

Viewing animated GIF's in Bridge

Apparently this has been an issue for a while and I don't understand why it hasn't been fixed yet, but please Adobe can you add support for previewing animated gifs in Bridge? It's ridiculous that a supposedly catch-all media browser like Bridge can't even preview this particular file type.

Agreed. Please allow Bridge to see animated GIFs in the Preview panel. We
know
it's possible. There was a build of Bridge that supported it, then it was removed:
steve guilhamet, "View Animated GIF" #1, 31 Oct 2005 4:42 pm
steve guilhamet
- 4:42pm Oct 31, 05 PST (#1 of 2) Edited: 31-Oct-2005 at 04:42pm
Adobe Photoshop Quality Engineer
Hi,
Bridge currently previews the animation in the Preview window.

How can I edit an animated GIF?

is there a way to add a animated GIF into your work, when I try to add one I am told that it will be a single layer. I downloaded a GIF from the web and trying to incorparate it into a web site header.

Well, you are in luck, sort of. You have all the apps needed to create an animated gif. However that does not mean that the image you download was already or not. It could be a single image.
A couple of things to go over
1) When downloading from the net make sure you have permission to use that image before sharing with the public, as the image is protected by copyright laws in the US. (Images that state - Permission to use commercially, copyright free, common law licence - Generally are meant to share with the general public, granted that you post somewhere who you got the image from(the Least anyone can do it give credit where credit is due)
2)Since you have the Master Collection or the CS4 Master Suite, you have every app that is need to create your own works of art. Photoshop, After Effects, Premeire pro are all capable of creating animated gifs. With the latter two being easier than photoshop.
Since you have CS4 photoshop and this is the photoshop forum, we will keep it there.
The version of Photoshop that comes in the master suite is the extended version of photoshop which is require for most of the animations it can do. Though, think and am not certain that the standard version can create animated gif files.
OK, ok we got a lot of mumbo jumbo above so lets get into how to create an animated gif.
First we need to determine if we are editing an animated gif or creating one from scratch. To load an animated gif all you need to do is file>open then select the file. Simple enough.
The file will place each frame onto its own layer and if you have the animation panel open (If not select Windows>Animation ) Each frame will be placed there as well.
Lets say we are going to edit a frame or better yet introduce a new frame. In the upper right hand corner of the animation panel is a small icon. Clicking it will pop up a menu. In that menu select delete animation. Don't worry your layers are safe, it only removes the frames from the animation panel.
Now you can either change something in one of the layers or add a layer where you want the frame intoduced.
When you are done you can select that same icon in the animation panel to pop up the menu and select Make frames from layers This will place all the layers back into the animation panel. This has to happen in order to save an animated gif.
You can now use the File>save to web or File>Save to web and devices (This optiuon changed during one of the version, I don't recall so both are listed or look for something close to that)
Select Gif for the format then the save button, where you can choose a location and file name. It will automatically add a hyphen between any words that normally are spaces for the web.
OK, If you read the above, you probably alread realize how to create one from scratch. Just add a new layer for each frame and follow the steps above to add it to the animation panel and save for web.
I know it sounds like a lot, but once you have done it a few times, it actually fairly simple.
OK, Bonus round - What about After Effects and Premeire Pro?
Well both of those apps Use a timeline instead of frames. Which makes them much simpler and more powerful for animations, since that is what they are dedicated to do.
It is as simple as open the gif file, edit it, save it, done.
I won't go into how the timeline works as that would require a long , long post. But once you understand it, it is much quicker and can do way more feature wise.
One last thing, play around with it and see what it can do before commiting time to creating or editing a gif. It goes much easier once you get the hang of it.
If you have any questions, issues, etc. just post away...
Well, I got to go, I hope this helps.

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