On 11/15/06, Andrew S. Townley <atownley@...16...> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:42, Mike Causer wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:38:00 +0000 "Andrew S. Townley" < atownley@...16...> wrote:
>
> > I know IE doesn't support PNG (which is what the FAQ entry is about),
> > but if I create a transparent GIF with the Gimp, I get a transparent GIF
> > (albeit with much worse-looking text) than if I do it with Inkscape.
> > It's been a while since I looked at image formats in detail, but if it
> > is simply a matter of massaging the color of the "background" pixels in
> > the GIF, is there a tool that can do this?  I changed the document
> > properties from #ffffff00 to #00000000 wondering if that may make a
> > difference, but it doesn't.
>
> If you know the background colour, gifsicle will fix it for you.
> (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/)   The MS-Windows binary is not as
> current as the Un*x ones, but will still do the job you need.

Mike,

Thanks for the pointer.  I wasn't aware of that one.

Based on further exploration (and viewing the raw image data as hex), I
discovered my problem:  I thought Inkscape was "smart" enough to
automatically generate different export bitmap formats by file extension
(having years and years of conditioning from GIMP and OO).  But, as most
of you probably already know, it doesn't:  you always get PNG, no matter
what you say the file extension should be.  This explains a lot, but as
a relatively newcommer to Inkscape, it wasn't terribly obvious.

Are there any plans to support exporting to other image formats than PNG
in the future?

Cheers,

ast
--
Andrew S. Townley < ast@...2044...>
http://atownley.org

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