Closed bzanchet closed 12 years ago
The reason this was done originally was because some PDFs were causing big problems when more than one page was processed. We could possibly use identify
to detect a file's format and the number of images it contains, but that would require more steps in the process. If you're willing to submit a patch to that end, or to extend the names of the formats that will be treated as animated, we'll consider it.
On ./lib/paperclip/thumbnail.rb#102 there's an explicit check to confirm that the image extension is "gif". This is preventing perfectly valid animated gif images (see examples) from being recognized as such. Is there a reason for that? Is there a more reliable way of detecting if a given image is animated?
example animated gifs (no extension, and .gifa ):