On 23 Mar 2003 16:12:26 +0000 Paul <paulf.johnson at ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, > > > Now about the bug: when you have an image (gif) with transparency, the > > image shows just fine in scribus (white or gray or blue background as > > expected etc..) but when you create a pdf of this, the background of > > the image is turned to black (the default I guess) and the image is > > inverted > > I'm not actually sure that that is a bug in scribus as I've seen this > happen with a large number of applications which have gifs which utilise > a transparency. Personally, I would avoid using gifs if you can as a few > weeks back those lovely folks from Compuserve (or whoever now own them) > won an extension to be able to obtain royalties from anyone using gifs. > PNGs and JPGs are far nicer to manipulate ;-) I agree, but it's sometimes a little unexpected. So maybe a warning could come out of scribus when you try to load images with transparency ... Anyway, the feature request is something I would like much more than this so-called bug fixed :) Franky
