Animated Gifs Are not animating

[Mike & Patrice]

We have Publisher 2000 and for the last 2 years or so we were able to
just copy and paste animated GIFs onto the page being edited and when
previewing the webpage the animation would animate. Now, any NEW animations
pasted or even using the Insert method don't work. It seems the properties
of animation go away once inserted into Publisher. i.e. the gif changes from
an active animation to a static graphic. Strange thing is that if we copy an
OLD, working Gif from another location within the web site working docment, -
(the .pub file) it works. We tried posting the webite to the host and
viewing with another computer and the old active Gifs work, but the newly
added are static.

BTW I did find a work-around to be able to use animated gifs by linking
with the graphic manager but it is a lot more work to insert an animation now
and would like to fix the problem.

Any ideas what may have changed?

BTW We recently updated part of our Office package to Office 2007 but that
upgraded Word, PP, & Excel. Publisher remained version 2000. I have the
same Office 2007 package on a laptop along with Publisher 2002 and no issues
with that. I'm about ready to trash Publisher 2000 and replace it with 2002,
but I'd like to see if there is a way of fixing the 2000 version.
Another BTW - Frontpage 2003 that is also on this computer has no problems
with inserting animated Gifs.

 

[Don Schmidt]

I just copied an animated gif file from one of my website .pub files to a
second website .pub file. Doing a Website preview, the animation worked
fine.

'Don't know what the problem might be you're experiencing.

 

[Mike & Patrice]

Thanks Don,
I might be able to do what you did also if I had two .pub files that were
created before whatever changed. Whatever happened is preventing us from
inserting new animated gifs from sources other than an old .pub file. Even
if I create a new website (new .pub file) and try to add animated Gifs the
Gif file loses the animation properties. I about ready to chalk it up to
unknown corrupt files and do an uninstall and reinstall in hopes it will fix
the problem. All my web searching revealed no one with the same problem.
mike

 

[DavidF]

Hi again,

Sorry, but it doesn't look like anyone is going to have any better
information for you here than in the general group.

I *was* able to reproduce your issue. Sorry I was not more clear about that
in the general group. I was also able to use your workaround, and to be
frank, I would question why you would switch versions of Publisher just
because of this one issue. Surely you aren't using that many animated gifs,
and it take all of a few seconds to do your workaround. But of course that
is your choice..

If you do a reinstall, I would suggest that perhaps you do a custom install
and install it into its own folder rather than the default. I kind of doubt
that it will make any difference as I suspect the issue is not caused by a
faulty installation as much as some other security feature on your computer
that has made this change. I chose not to install Office 2007, but do have
Office 2003, Pub 2000, 2003 and 2007 installed, and as I said I have the
same issue with animated gifs in Pub 2000. It might be a lot of things that
caused this, but before you switch versions of Publisher you might want to
read:
Web Publication Changes Made in Version 2002 of Publisher:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/81262.aspx
Publisher 2003 - What's new in web design for this version:
http://msmvps.com/blogs/dbartosik/pages/80555.aspx

There are advantages and disadvantages to all versions...and you will be
giving up some things by moving to Pub 2002.

DavidF

 

[Mike & Patrice]

DavidF,
Thanks for the heads up on Newer is not always better.
The website is rich with animated gifs
http://www.gfwcsharonville.org and gets updated nearly every week.
At a min I might try an uninstall / reinstall of the 2000 & post the results.
Mike & Patrice

 

[Don Schmidt]

Mike,

When visiting your site, seems all of the animated files are working fine.

 

[Mike & Patrice]

Thank Don for the double check. We used the work-around to get them to be
active.