On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:45:44PM -0400, Nick Cummings wrote:
> I'm trying to make some images of equations I have written in LaTeX.  I 
> want the equations to be clack text on a transparent background.  What 
> I'm currently trying to do is use the ImageMagick command "convert" to 
> take an image of black text on a white background, and then set the 
> transparency equal to the brightness on a gray scale (i.e. white is 
> totally transparent and black is totally opaque).  convert appears to be 
> quite powerful, and I think this is possible, but I don't quite understand 
> how.  Afer reading the man page for ImageMagick, I tried the command

It's a bit of a sledgehammer, but you can use the GIMP to do this - open the
image, right-click on it, Layer -> Transparency -> Color to Alpha and choose
white as the color to convert to the alpha channel.

[You might have to add an alpha channel first - I don't remember.]

Ben
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