[Since some people have shown interest... follow-up on the Gimp `bug' -- Raju]
This is an RFC 1153 digest. (1 message) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <20021030104226.9623AB811@baal> From: Robert Bihlmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Clark Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Gimp: Erased sections of images print in some cases Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:42:26 +0100 (CET) Clark Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://c-mills.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/transparent.png > > If you view this image from Linux in Galeon 1.2.6 or Netscape/7.0 > all looks fine however if you print the image from within these > applications then the _erased_ section prints as if it was never > erased. Cute. pngtopnm will also uncover the "erased" area. Gimp's eraser simply modifies the alpha channel, leaving RGB channels intact. If something later sets transparency to zero (e.g. because the output device/format doesn't support it), the original data appears again. Something to keep in mind. > I let the Gimp people know this but they replied considering it a > feature not a bug which could be the case in some/most > circumstances, Bug #97167. Perhaps it should be an option to the eraser to clear RGB as well. FWIW, my Gimp (1.2.3) has ">Image>Alpha>Clear Alpha..." which will do that for the whole layer/image. It is a standard gimp-perl plugin, apparently. -- Robbe ------------------------------ End of this Digest ****************** -- Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves ================================================ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
