Re: PNG transparency woes

2009-01-24 Thread Hugh Senior
Hi Chipp Interesting. That sounds an almost definite likely possible. /H Hugh, For some reason, if there are not enough colors in a picture, rev saves the image in 8-bit PNG instead of 32-bit PNG. That could be your problem. ___ use-revolution mailing

PNG transparency woes

2009-01-23 Thread Hugh Senior
I am using InfanView on Windows to save images. Using the GIF option, transparency is maintained in rev stacks, but if I save using PNG the transparency is not honoured in a stack (there is a transparency because the same file is fine when viewed in Internet Explorer). Does anyone else use

PNG transparency woes

2009-01-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I mainly work with Mac and Linux; however, I do, from time to time, pop together things for Windows. My experience is that (in the Open Source/FREE world to which IrfanView belongs) GIMP consistently produces PNG files that maintain their transparency regardless of which platform one is punting

RE: PNG transparency woes

2009-01-23 Thread Hugh Senior
Thank you Richmond. I shall follow up your leads. IrfanView is, nevertheless, a very fine and useful bit of kit on win32 for quick n' dirty img manipulation... Just wish it did png transpanecies that rev can understand! /H I mainly work with Mac and Linux; however, I do, from time to time, pop

Re: PNG transparency woes

2009-01-23 Thread Chipp Walters
Hugh, For some reason, if there are not enough colors in a picture, rev saves the image in 8-bit PNG instead of 32-bit PNG. That could be your problem. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,