On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:56 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer <o...@bogosoft.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On 14.02.2011, at 12:50, Ivan Tkatchev wrote: >> Please see the relevant discussion and patch here: >> >> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4217869/python-pil-all-areas-of-png-with-opacity-0-have-their-opacity-set-to-1 >> >> This is a very serious bug that affects many upstream packages. > > It's questionable if this is a serious bug. It's more a missing feature (read > alpha from paletted images).
Since the alpha in paletted PNG images is in the PNG specification, and PIL does support alpha I am quite certain this can be named a bug. And a severe misfeature. >> It would be nice if a fix made its way into the official PIL release so that >> users would not have to suffer. > > I did some contributions to improve the PNG handling and there are already in > the development trunk for 1.2. You can get a source package here: > https://bitbucket.org/olt/pil-2009-raclette/get/tip.tar.bz2 I appreciate your work -- congratulations for the effort. Have you addressesd this particular issue of palleted alpha support? js -><- > Regards, > Oliver > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig