Why are so many GIFs generated when I save a notebook as HTML?

The HTML pages created in Mathematica 3.0 make use of multiple pictures to display information. All graphs, formulae and typeset expressions are saved and displayed as pictures. This is necessary to preserve the appearence of these expressions. All of the generated GIF's are part of the HTML representation of the notebook. These GIF's must be stored in the same directory as the HTML version of the notebook so the files can be located by the web browser when the notebook is viewed.

If any of the GIFs are missing, the missing GIF symbol...

...will appear instead of the graph, formula or expression when the document is viewed.

In Mathematica 4.0 and later versions, you can suppress these GIFs with ConversionOptions.

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/interface/export/nogifs.html

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