gifstitch

README

gifstitch

This project is a simple program to combine multiple source GIF animation files into a single merged animation. A list of source files is provided, as well as an optional list of loop counters, and a master file is aggregated by appending each animation's frames n number of times where n is either 1 or the provided number of loops.

Usage

To install, you can run:

go install github.com/haleyrc/gifstitch

Then in the directory with your source files, run:

gifstitch --files FILELIST [--loops LOOPLIST -o OUTPUTFILE]

where FILELIST is an ordered, comma-separated list of file names to append and LOOPLIST is an ordered, comma-separated list of loop counters for each file.

Note that if --loops is provided, the number of counters provided MUST be equal to the number of source files provided.

OUTPUTFILE is the name of the file to create. If no output file is given, the default name of merged.gif will be used.

TODO

• Better support for files outside of the working directory.
• Piped input support to help with scripting.
• A server implementation demo.