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- From: dat91lho@ludat.lth.se (Lars Holmgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: PageStream3.0i bitmap image problems (was: ... LOAD PROBLEM)
- Date: 7 Apr 1996 21:50:19 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden
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- Michael Loader <76711.2617@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
- >dat91lho@ludat.lth.se (Lars Holmgren) wrote:
- >
- >>My problems with loading 2.2 documents are that I used to
- >>overlap bitmap images (black&white IFFs) and the background
- >>colour used to be transperant. However, when importing this
- >>old document into 3.0i the images being behind are covered
- >>and hence the result is not the same as in old 2.2. What can
- >>be done to fix this problem? Can pictures have a transperant
- >>backgruond in 3.0i?
- >
- >No, white pixels in bitmapped pictures cannot be transparent
- >in 3.0. PostScript doesn't allow this, so PageStream shouldn't
- >either. 2.2 did for non-PostScript printers and it confused
- >people to get a different result on screen and non-PS than on
- >PostScript.
-
- I can understand that now, but what do you suggest us to do if
- we need it? If it is bitmap images why cannot pagestream join
- them to one larger image when generating the postscript file?
-
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