Speaking as one very biased individual, who claims to know something
about GIF images...
Interlaced images are good for two things:
Slow links between client and server
Cool fade in effect
I dislike them for these reasons:
They have a better chance of compressing to a larger file size
They are the _worst_ way you could think of to load images
for an X windows display. You have to scan convert
line at a time and copy to the server, thus adding
another client<->server interaction for every scanline.
The best thing to do is make it an option, since any time I produce
document for a Internal Information System, the server<->client
throughput is 10Mb/s or more and interlaced images are the last
thing that I wan to ship around.
Just my 0.02 cents..
David
[email protected]
ps. On this product of yours, are we going to get the option
of specifing what DPI resolution we would like the images
generated for? Since on of the things that I do a lot of
is when I rasterize line drawings is the following process:
Frame -> postscript @ 150 dpi -> scale 50% -> GIF
This results in an nice anti-aliased image.