Meanings
plural anigifs
- informalcomputingAn animated image in the GIF format.
Stella, once you've converted the anigif to avi, insert it into PPT (using Insert/Movie/From File), then right-click it and select Custom Animation.
2001 March 18, Echo S, “Powerpoint 97”, in microsoft.public.design.gallery (Usenet), message-ID <3AB4C80A.E55238BE@indy.net>2 more examples
The gentleman's original complaint was that his gifs (not anigifs) had been turned into anigifs. The answer you gave would be okay IF he only had one type of graphic involved.
1997 May 8, Ken M. Hale, “Gifs now Anigifs, How to turn them back?”, in microsoft.public.publisher (Usenet), message-ID <01bc5c0c$d93dcc00$e27681ce@premier1.premier1.net>If you are asking about making an anigif then the other posts have addys that are good. If you're asking about placing an anigif on yer page, the answer's easy: Place it on like anyother^([sic]) picture.
1998 January 18, Rancie, “Animated Gif”, in alt.homepages.geocities (Usenet), message-ID <34c3b930.0@news1.ibm.net>
Origin
Shortening of animated GIF.
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