Transparent images

[Sarah]

I think it might partly be a GraphicConverter in OS X problem. Chipp 
sent me a test image which works perfectly in Rev but looks weird when 
opened in GC. I upgraded to GC 4.5.1 and his image now works fine, but 
doesn't look as if any color is set to transparent. My images still 
aren't working correctly, but I have found that if I create a new image 
(rather than copying some clipart) and save it as a GIF, then it will 
come in transparent. otherwise, I can use a Mac only solution and set 
the ink to transparent. I still can't work out why I can't get PNGs to 
work transparently.

Cheers,
Sarah

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 03:21  am, livfoss at blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:02:51 +1000, Sarah <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> 
> wrote:
>
>> AAARGGHHHH! I've done this before and now I can't get it to work. I am
>> importing an image and I can't get the background to be transparent. I
>> am using GraphicConvertor as my image editor and I have tried both PNG
>> & GIF files, both with the background color set to transparent. In GC
>> the background is shaded out and in the Finder it is greyed out. As
>> soon as I import, the background goes back to opaque white and I can't
>> do anything about it.
>
>
>> This is driving me crazy, so I anyone has any ideas, please help!
>
>
> Sarah, I tried to reproduce the problem and couldn't, but I didn't use 
> the image editor from inside RR. If I use GraphicConverter on MacOS 
> 9.2.2 and use the 'T' tool to set transparency in a GIF, and save the 
> GIF outside Revolution, then the 'Import as Control' item in the RR 
> Dev environment does produce an image with transparency set (for me, 
> anyway). Did you have trouble with this technique, or just the one 
> where the image editor is invoked from within Revolution?
>
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