Freeware image splitter for web pages?

[John Latter]

I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this question but I
would like to split a large gif I'm creating for my website into
several smaller parts to enable it to be downloaded quicker (er, or at
least I think it will).

Are there any freeware programs that can do this? If not, does anyone
know if I can 'manually' write the html so that no gaps appear around
each part - I tried inserting two gifs next to each other but a thin
'sliver' of background seperates the two.

Hope you can help!

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[Susan Bugher]

I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this question but I
would like to split a large gif I'm creating for my website into
several smaller parts to enable it to be downloaded quicker (er, or at
least I think it will).

Are there any freeware programs that can do this? If not, does anyone
know if I can 'manually' write the html so that no gaps appear around
each part - I tried inserting two gifs next to each other but a thin
'sliver' of background seperates the two.

Hope you can help!

This is the place.

This might be the program - Splitz!:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL2003WEBDESIGN.htm#ImageDicer


Susan

 

[Blinky the Shark]

I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this question but I
would like to split a large gif I'm creating for my website into
several smaller parts to enable it to be downloaded quicker (er, or at
least I think it will).

Seems to me like slicing up a pie, to get more pie. If your pipe can
handle x speed, then four connections at .25x each are going to be about
the same as one connection at 1x. I could be wrong. Add a little more
overhead for four files, over the amount that the single file had, and I
dunno if you're going to see any difference. Have I said "I could be
wrong", yet?

 

[John Latter]

This is the place.

This might be the program - Splitz!:

http://www.pricelessware.org/2003/PL2003WEBDESIGN.htm#ImageDicer

Thank you Susan!

John

Susan

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John Latter

The Socially Acceptable Violence website:
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/sac.html

The Socially Acceptable Violence Discussion Egroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saviolence/

Psychology and the Roman Catholic Church (Research)
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/roman.html

Psychology and The Roman Catholic Church Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholicpsychology/

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

Where Darwin meets Lamarck? Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[John Latter]

Thanks for the info Blinky & Antoine - I don't know anything anyway, I
just thought splitting 'em up might make the page load faster

And I like playing with new toys

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John Latter

The Socially Acceptable Violence website:
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/sac.html

The Socially Acceptable Violence Discussion Egroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saviolence/

Psychology and the Roman Catholic Church (Research)
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/roman.html

Psychology and The Roman Catholic Church Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholicpsychology/

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

Where Darwin meets Lamarck? Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[DC]

Thanks for the info Blinky & Antoine - I don't know anything anyway, I
just thought splitting 'em up might make the page load faster

There can be an advantage. It depends. Splitting allows you to
optimise each slice individually, dependant on content. So, depending
on the type/composition of the image, you can achieve a speed advantage.

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Your sig delimeter appears to be broken (it should be "-- "). Also,
could you shorten it a bit, please? 4 lines is an acceptable size.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

I'm not sure if this is the right newsgroup for this question but I
would like to split a large gif I'm creating for my website into
several smaller parts to enable it to be downloaded quicker (er, or at
least I think it will).

< snip >

It will only do that IF one can download some/all of the parts
concurrently AND one has unused downloading capacity.

Eg. 1 part by 40 seconds is longer than

4 parts by 10 seconds ........IF concurrent.

If however they are downloaded one after the other then the time
will be the same either way.

If one is not downloading at the maximum rate that your ISP allows
then a downloader allowing multiple "threads" will split your original
file into eg. four parts and re-assemble them after download.

Making downloading faster and avoiding the bother of splitting, and
then re-joining, files yourself.

Regards, John.

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[John Latter]

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It will only do that IF one can download some/all of the parts
concurrently AND one has unused downloading capacity.

Eg. 1 part by 40 seconds is longer than

4 parts by 10 seconds ........IF concurrent.

If however they are downloaded one after the other then the time
will be the same either way.

If one is not downloading at the maximum rate that your ISP allows
then a downloader allowing multiple "threads" will split your original
file into eg. four parts and re-assemble them after download.

Making downloading faster and avoiding the bother of splitting, and
then re-joining, files yourself.

Regards, John.

Thanks for the info John, I get the impression that splitting the
image up may not be worth the trouble!

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John Latter

The 'Socially Acceptable Violence' website:
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/sac.html

The 'Socially Acceptable Violence' Discussion Egroup:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saviolence/

Psychology and the Roman Catholic Church (Research)
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/roman.html

'Psychology and The Roman Catholic Church' Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catholicpsychology/

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

 

[John Fitzsimons]

Thanks for the info John, I get the impression that splitting the
image up may not be worth the trouble!

A better approach might be to make sure that there is a "compressed"
version for download. One with the greatest amount of compression
possible.

Regards, John.

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