RE: Background Gifs
>> From: graficon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:33 PM >> Subject: Background Gifs >> >> >> Greetings! >> >> Please solve my mystery! How do i prevent an image from being tiled >> when it's applied as a background gif on a web page. That is, are >> background images special, or do i have to create a really large gif? >> I find it hard to work in gfig with a 1000x1000 pixel image. This of >> course creates a very big gif for web loading... You can do it with style sheets but it won't work for all browsers, I don't think. Go to http://www.w3.org/css/ for information on Cascading Style Sheets. I've also found http://webreview.com/ to have lots of good information on CSS (among other things). Henry
Re: Background Gifs
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I've done it on a page before. It was something equivalent to > > STYLE="Background: No-Title" or something to that extent.. I don't > remmeber... > Yes, you *can* do this with style-sheets. However, this function is not supported by most browsers, so I consider it a nice idea that's more or less useless. You could also use layers but only a few versions of Netscape support that and IE or Opera don't at all (damned shame because it was a cool idea). There are some interesting ways to get around the problem of tiling which basically depend on your page design and background image. Just try to come up with creative ways to achieve the design you want using different methods. There may very well be a way to do it but it is going to depend on your design. You can use place this in your body tag: leftmargin=0 Cmarginheight=0 marginwidth=0 topmargin=0 (FYI those attributes are only supported by 4.x+ browsers). Then set up a table where your background image is the background of the table. This will still tile but if you set the table width to the same size as the image, it wont. You can have a similar effect by putting the peices of the background image in individual table cells, too. If you want a single background image, you need to make it *at least* 1700 pixels wide and I'd recommend making it tile vertically. See http://www.valinux.com for an example. Even though I didn't follow my own advice on the VA Linux site, I'd *highly* recommend that you avoid using one single great big background image. It's very hard to control the file size, for one thing. It can easily make your site big and clunky. You must make the image big enough that it doesn't tile horizontally so that means you get to work with massively huge images which can be a pain. I would not resort to this unless I absolutely couldn't come up with another way to acheive my design. Just my 2 cents! :) Good Luck! --Amy Abascal --- "A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for your neck!!" HAPPY HALLOWEEN http://www.fallenangel.com/hallowseve/ ---
Re: Background Gifs
On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, James Knowles wrote: > This is an alternative, along with a JPEG. The compression should take > the file size down to nothing. I have no idea whether browsers would > effectively deal with this. I have seen something similar with a wide > but not very tall image that produced a verticle tiling effect. Honestly, if you're going to do this, I'd recommend using a PNG. The file compression is *much* better than GIF or JPG. You can toss in some browser detection code to make sure the browser supports PNG and if it doesn't give them the GIF or JPG instead. The majority of your viewers will get served the PNG. --Amy Abascal --- "A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for your neck!!" HAPPY HALLOWEEN http://www.fallenangel.com/hallowseve/ ---
Re: GIMP GIF->PNG transparency woes
You may want to see http://www.burnallgifs.org http://www.iconoclast.net/burngifs/ For more info about this. In a nutshell, only a very few browsers support transparent PNG's. Netscape for Linux doesn't support them at all. This is very disconcerting and it's why I couldn't change my sites over. ESR had an absolute fit at me over the VA Linux site and Don Marti just kinda growled. If you can alter your design to get around using transparencies, it would be great! Try making your image background color match your bgcolor. But that's not the problem you are having. Your problem is due to the fact that GIMP requires you to convert to RGB before it will save a PNG. I believe that later versions of CVS GIMP have fixed this. Good Luck! Amy Abascal On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, James Knowles wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to convert GIFs with transparencies to PNGs using GIMP to > produce a 100% GIF-free site. > > I take the following steps: > 1) Open the GIF (for example, the gfx_by_gimp.gif "Graphics by GIMP") > 2) Select "save as" > 3) Select PNG type > 4) Save > 5) PNG options (compression) dialog comes up - OK > 6) I get a dialog that simply says "save failed - " > > It seems obvious that I'm missing a step, but I'm not sure what. I may > be blind, but I can't find it in the docs. > > I hate to admit that in my frustration, I tried using a [m$] program. It > didn't even attempt to preserve the transparency. Ack! > > GIMP 1.04 > RH 6.0 > Linux 2.2.3 with special SMP patches > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > James > > -- > Running NT is like listening to Kenny G with a kazoo. > --Amy Abascal --- "A penny for your thoughts, a nickel for your neck!!" HAPPY HALLOWEEN http://www.fallenangel.com/hallowseve/ ---
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Hi, just want to know what's the best resolution for a EPS format?
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