you need to get the gifreader library http://www.camelot-soft.com/~jareth greg Hrvoje> Hrvoje> emacs-version Hrvoje> => "21.0 \"Swedish Landrace\" XEmacs Lucid" Hrvoje> Hrvoje> (valid-image-instantiator-format-p 'gif) Hrvoje> => nil Hrvoje> Hrvoje> Note that I have libgif, and it worked fine up to a few betas ago. Hrvoje> Hrvoje> -- Hrvoje> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia Hrvoje> --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Hrvoje> Lost in Static 18 / And the storm is closing in now Hrvoje>