PNG with No Alpha Channel?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Trevor,

> On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:17 PM, Klaus Major wrote:
>> Sorry, was a bit too fast!
>> Just had a look in Photoshop at the resulting files and both do  
>> have an alpha channel.
>> Maybe you could export the snapshot to a variable as JPEG first and  
>> then to fiel as PNG?
> I need to export to PNG as I need a lossless image.  I just tried  
> exporting to paint as a variable and assigning the variable to the  
> text property of an image but the image displayed nothing. I then  
> exporting to paint as a file and assigned the file to the filename  
> property of the image and the image data displayed properly. Alas,  
> exporting the image as PNG to a file resulted in an image with an  
> alpha channel.

Maybe you were right and all exports to PNG format DO have an alpha  
channel, be it necessary or not.

> -- 
> Trevor DeVore
> Blue Mango Learning Systems
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Best

Klaus Major
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