[cairo] Saving surfaces as GIF/ low color PNG

[Mohit Sindhwani]

For one of the applications where we are serving up dynamically created 
images on the web, I was thinking of using Cairo.  Now, Cairo produces 
PNG files, which at default can be quite large.  I was wondering if 
people here are using something to convert the image/ PNG surface to a 
GIF file or such.  I'm on Windows for this application.

Searching Google for Cairo GIF doesn't get very far.  This is the main 
thread that I found:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-October/011696.html

It does suggest that GIF support is naturally not planned since an image 
surface could be run through a GIF compressor.  Wondering what (if any) 
people are using.  Any pointers are appreciated. 

Thanks,
Mohit.
8/13/2008 | 1:57 AM.