{{Short description|Free GIF image editing software}} {{Infobox software | title = GIFBuilder | name = | logo = <!-- File name without 'File:' --> | logo caption = | logo alt = | logo size = | collapsible = <!-- Any text here will collapse the screenshot. --> | screenshot = <!-- File name without 'File:' --> | screenshot size = | screenshot alt = | caption = | other_names = | developer = Yves Piguet | released = {{Start date and age|1996}} | ver layout = Stacked | discontinued = <!-- Set to yes, if software is discontinued, otherwise omit. --> | latest release version = | latest release date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} --> | latest preview version = | latest preview date = <!-- {{Start date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes/no}} --> | repo = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} --> | qid = | programming language = C (programming language) | middleware =Carbon | engine = <!-- or |engines= --> | operating system = | platform = | included with = | replaces = | replaced_by = | service_name = | size = | standard = | language = | language count = <!-- Number only --> | language footnote = | genre = | license = <!-- or |licence= --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.org}} or {{official URL}} --> | AsOf = }} '''GIFBuilder''' was an early animated GIF creation program for Apple Macintosh computers. It was written by Yves Piguet and released as freeware. It is one of the few freeware applications to support the GIF format.
GIFBuilder was released in 1996 and that year won the Ziff Davis Shareware Award in the Graphics and Multimedia category.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyctergatis.com/gifbuilder/index.html|title=GifBuilder|website=nyctergatis.com|accessdate=October 3, 2019}}</ref> GIFBuilder was developed from '''clip2gif''', an earlier program by the same author, which was an Apple Event-based CGI script for generating GIF images on WebSTAR and other Macintosh web servers of the era.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://whitefiles.org/b1_s/1_free_guides/fg3mo/pgs/v01_ascgi.htm |title=CGI and AppleScript |access-date=2014-08-14 |archive-date=2015-12-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151220234743/http://whitefiles.org/b1_s/1_free_guides/fg3mo/pgs/v01_ascgi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
It was ported to Mac OS X using the Carbon (API) library, but has not been updated to function with OS X version after Lion.
==See also== *Microsoft GIF Animator
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==External links== * [https://nyctergatis.com/gifbuilder/index.html Home page] * [http://www.mac.org/graphics/gifbuilder/ Download link]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gifbuilder}} Category:Graphics software Category:Macintosh-only software Category:Discontinued software Category:1996 software