me> Inline display of certain gif images produced by Microsoft Office/Outlook, ..., seem to have an incorrect color map, displaying most as a black/faint image.
adrian> I have no trouble viewing that gif inline via Gnus mail reader.
I have no trouble seeing it, but the colors are wrong. Mostly these images come through the mail and I read them with mh-e (8.03), which uses gnus to handle MIME, I think.
I just fired up "xemacs --vanilla" and did a find file on the offending file and it come up with pink background, when it should be white (other colors may me messed up too).  No gnus, no mh-e, straight opening of the file.
If I open the file with ImageMagick and save it back as gif and open that one with xemacs, the file is now "fixed" and displayed properly. See bad.gif and good.gif in the attached sh archive. 

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Mia Via wrote:

> Inline display of certain gif images produced by Microsoft
> Office/Outlook, like the one attached here, seem to have an incorrect
> color map, displaying most as a black/faint image.
> 
> Something may be non-standard with those images, as XV also has
> trouble displaying them, complaining that the file is truncated. 
> However, ImageMagick and the Gimp have no problems. The files identify
> themselves as GIF87a, supported by XEmacs and XV, but still something
> is wrong.

FWIW, if I do "C-x C-f image001.gif" repeatedly, I get a different
palette every time. Likewise if I keep hitting D in VM (bound to
vm-decode-mime-message).

Also, gifclrmp (from giflib) segfaults, as does giftext with any
option except -r (dump raw data).

Sample image attached base64 encoded via mmencode

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Inline display of certain gif images produced by Microsoft Office/Outlook, like the one attached here, seem to have an incorrect color map, displaying most as a black/faint image.
Something may be non-standard with those images, as XV also has trouble displaying them, complaining that the file is truncated.  However, ImageMagick and the Gimp have no problems.  The files identify themselves as GIF87a, supported by XEmacs and XV, but still something is wrong.
Any way to fix this?  Point the glyph code to some other translator?

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