In message <4862CF53.8090407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Prewett <pprewett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Ovation Windows but the picture itself was drawn as a sprite and had a mask
That is a troublesome area...
displays correctly in Ovation Pro but it is the conversion to pdf from Ovation that the mask gets converted to black.
I'd suggest configuring your copy of Ovation Pro for Windows to use "direct PostScript" Misc->Choices->Print then print to PDF again.
It is hard to summarise the situation on Windows with regards to transparency. On classic windows there is no support, and you do it by eor'ing bitmaps, the PostScript drivers don't support this. As with RISC OS there are two major classes of printer drivers meta file and PostScript. Now no doubt transparency support has appeared over the years, but that doesn't mean printer drivers have been upgraded to understand it.
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