Transparent Images

[Mark Talluto]

On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 05:01  AM, Shari wrote:

>>  > I have some transparent png's on several cards, and sometimes they 
>> show up
>>>  transparent and other times they don't (ie. they have a big ugly 
>>> white
>>>  rectangular background). I can even go back and forth between a 
>>> couple of
>>>  cards, and images that show up fine one time will not show up ok the 
>>> next
>>>  and vice-versa. I have not been able to find a repeatable pattern to 
>>> it, but
>>>  it is a fairly common occurance.
>>>
>>>  Has anyone else seen this?
>>>
>>  > Glen Yates
>
> I've had problems with that too.  If I save an image as a JPEG, even if 
> I remove the white around the image and save just the image, the white 
> part shows up in my stacks, making the image square or rectangular, and 
> nothing I've tried gets rid of the white.  I've experimented with the 
> inks and transparencies and so forth, with no luck.  I do not know if 
> this is a JPEG thing or a Metacard thing.
>
> It only works if I save it as a GIF image.  Unfortunately, that's a LOT 
> of extra work for me, as GIFs want to degrade the image and I have to 
> ditz and ditz to get it to look the same.  There's no easy save option 
> for GIFS in my software that doesn't degrade the image. I'm in the 
> middle of doing this right now, with a very large batch of images.  My 
> PhotoDeluxe program is not Applescriptable, so they each have to be 
> done the hard way, using the Advanced Save option.
>
> My goal was that I wanted the images to be oval.
>
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For sure you want to use .png.  Graphic Converter can batch process is 
guys for you.  Set the background color that is to be transparent and 
you are done.  You should not have to mess with inks in MC with this 
file format.

-Mark Talluto