Re: Bad rendering of PNG saved from GIMP

[Alan Buxey]

hi,

> 'cuse the ignorance, but is it possible to create a png image that
> provides 'gif type of transparency?'  That is, something that will work
> with current browsers and stay away from the patented gif format?

yes, of course you can have PNGs with transparency.... RedHat Linxu comes
with a transparentcy PNG for its login window with xdm/kdm (RedHat 6.1)

the GIF format is only patented for its LZW compression technique...
(so, get uncompressed GIFs and you can be free anyway ;-)
 
alan