Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 05:59:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Re: Re: Re: Capclave '04 web page
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 20:32:59 -0800 (PST) Rich Lynch
> <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
> writes:
> >
> > --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
> > > Ok, the consensus seems to be for the first .PNG,
> >
> > Whose consensus?  That's the one that has the bright
> yellow
> > background when viewed in Netscape 4.7.  It looks bad
> in
> > Netscape, in other words.
> >
> > Once again, strongly recommend that you use a GIF image
>
> > with a transparent background instead of whatever
> format
> > that image is.
> >
>
> I had reported to Keith that N4.7 shows the yellow bg,
> but I had opined
> that the yellow bg looks better than the white bg, and
> that considering
> that most browsers would show the first png with a
> transparent bg, which
> is even better, it would be acceptable to use the first
> png, just to be
> done with the matter.  Apparently it's only the older
> Netscape versions
> which show the yellow bg.  However, as I told Keith, my
> graphics
> conversion software shows the first png with a yellow bg,
> which implies
> that a yellow bg is the 'true' rendering for that file.
>
> Of course a transparent bg would be best.  I spent a half
> hour trying to
> convert the file to a jpg with a transparent bg, and I
> was unable to do
> so.  Apparently my software will not select areas _by
> color_, nor does it
> offer 'transparent' as a replacement color.  I'm all in
> favor of making a
> jpg with a transparent bg, but for me it's not worth
> spending more time
> than I have already spent.
>

I don't think you can make a JPG with a transparent
background.  But it's easy enough to do with a GIF.

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