Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] I've updated the "Ethereal User's Guide"

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>  
>
> > -renewed *all* screenshot, using win32 GTK2.4 with png as the file format
> > the screenshots were outdated. png is smaller and provides better
> > quality than jpg for screenhots, gif is still patented. All modern
> > browsers should work with png (except lynx ;-)
> >    
>
> Actually, I can't remember why jpgs were used in the original. It is a bad
> choice for screen shots of things like Ethereal. However, the GIF patents
> have expired now. They did so over a year ago now, I believe.
>  
AFAIK, the patents are still valid in some countries. They will expire 
in these days now, but I would think png should do the job.

Regards, ULFL