Zoner GIF Animator 5's Features

Unique Features

Helps you create "trick banners" showing simulated Windows system controls (dialogs, message boxes, buttons, etc.). Find out more.

Its texture generator offers practically infinite textures in hundreds of basic types.

Lets you directly add WMF and EMF vector images to frames.

Lets you set an animation's background color.

Other Useful Features and Functions

Lets you restore animation frames' original states. Find out more.

Bitmap import: GIF, JPG, PCD, MAC, PNG, TIF, TGA, BMP, DIB, RLE, ICO, WPG, BMI, and PCX

Animation import: FLI, FLIC, and AVI

Support for text frames, including advanced editing functions, easy editing of animation frames, merging frames, tweening (blending) between frames

Easy definition of animation borders; lockable borders

Frame drag-and-drop, support for all frame-refresh methods, titles for all animation frames

Direct access to a bitmap editor from the program

Frame printing (either frame contents or the animation state for a frame), frame rotation, frame flipping, creating empty bitmap frames, giving solid transparencies to entire frames

Support for Adobe Plug-Ins

Distortion effect, direct previewing of currently-edited animations in a Web browser of your choice, export of individual frames to bitmaps

Optimization Functions to Minimize Animations' File Sizes

Dither frames, trim frames, remove comment blocks, remove titles

Remove special features (convert vector graphics, TrueColor bitmaps, simulated controls into the ordinary bitmaps in aGIF frames)

Tweening (blending) between frames

Difference method, create global and/or local palettes, set palettes' color depth precisely

Features of the Advanced User Interface

Users can divide the program environment vertically or horizontally to suit the animation dimensions and their style of work

The thumbnails area, with an intuitive "film-strip" look, can represent frames in a size of your choice

A well-organized control panel gives quick access to most features

Seven-level zoom, unlimited undo function

You can change the work area's background color

System Requirements:

OS: Windows^TM 95/98/ME/2000/XP
Processor: Pentium or equivalent 166 MHz or higher
Memory: 32 MB RAM
HDD: 10+ MB of free disk space
Resolution: 800 x 600 High Color (1024 x 768 recommended)