[softwarelist] Re: Transparent GIFs, PostScript and PDF

In message <493AF548.3050104@xxxxxxxx>, Clive Bonsall <cbonsall@xxxxxxx> writes
I thought transparency was more or less restricted to GIF and PNG (and RISCOS sprite). 

and TIFF
problem, and trawled the Internet for hours looking for a solution. Nothing worked, so in a way I'm relieved to know it's a limitation within OPW. 

Well...
It seems obvious that it would be a good idea to use the new support for masked images when printing to a PostScript driver, since there is nothing to lose, and I'll see about making that change now. 
Thanks, that would certainly be useful.
OK, I've done this, and it is a great improvement. What has not been mentioned is that a transparent bitmap is equivalent to a rotated or skewed bitmap so they suffer from the same problems.
I said "well" above because the limitation is that the new functions are only in Windows NT/2K/XP/Vista, the other branch of the Windows family does not support them. This is not the problem it would have been a few years back.
I'll upload the new version on Sunday - give me time to think about what I have done. I'll say here when the new version is available. 


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