PNG with No Alpha Channel?

Luis luis at anachreon.co.uk
Wed Jun 11 04:49:12 EDT 2008


I take it exporting it as a gif and then converting back to a png is  
a no-no...

Cheers,

Luis.

On 10 Jun 2008, at 23:33, Trevor DeVore wrote:

> On Jun 10, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Luis wrote:
>
>> 'pngcrush' (commandline option) can do this as well as  
>> 'imagemagic' (also commandline).
>>
>> imagemagick: convert pic.png -background white -flatten +matte  
>> pic_new.png
>>
>> Unless what you want to do is get it into indexed (palette) mode  
>> and remove the alpha channel from there.
>>
>> png2pdf might be an option, it can take care of the alpha channel  
>> and give you a pdf, which you can embed into a pdf
>> (http://png2pdf.sourceforge.net)
>
> Thanks for the links Luis. I'm aware of the other tools out there  
> that can do this but I'm hoping to not have to include another  
> image library on Mac and Windows just to strip alpha channels from  
> PNG files which is why I was hoping someone knew how to do it with  
> Revolution.
>
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