Hi, "Eric Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> For page layout work, at work we use (don't laugh) PageMaker. Me > and the other guy recently learned that we could import raster > images w/transparency and actually have it display properly in > PageMaker. We also learned that the tif must have a clipping path. > Basically, it's a path with a special designation as a 'clipping > path' and everything inside the path will show, and everything > outside the clipping path is transparent. There's a little rivalry > at work because my colleage uses Photoshop while I use The Gimp. As > it would be, PS could do a clipping path, but I couldn't see that > Gimp could. In PS, you bring up the context menu with the paths > menu up and designate which path will be the 'clipping path'. > That's it. I don't know about the internals of the tif file, or if > it's even a recognized spec in tif. I can throw up an image > somewhere if anyone is curious to check it out. Clipping paths are a well-known concept but just like you I don't know much about the implementation and how standardized this is. Did you check if our bug-tracker has an enhancement request for clipping paths yet? If not, it would be nice if you could file one and add as many information as possible. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
