----- Forwarded message begin ----- From: "Neil Parks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tried to view the attached GIF with Arachne, and it looked awful. It is supposed to be a directory tree as seen in a winbloat file manager, but the dark blue background makes everything pretty much unreadable. The same GIF looks exactly right when viewed with the ancient (1991) Cedar Island GIF viewer 1.0. [Attached file: ftp-acs-.] (File "ftp-acs-.gif" (type image/gif, size 9 KB)) ------ Forwarded message end ------ Just looked at the above msg in my Sent folder. The gif appeared in-line, and looked good. I clicked on the link to the gif to view it separately, and as before, it got lost under a dark blue background. Apparently the gif has a transparent background. And when arachne displays a gif by itself, it happens to use a screen with a dark blue background. As I'm writing this msg in Arachne's email composer window, the letters that I type appear in yellow on a dark blue background--probably the same blue that spoiled the view of the gif. I know the foreground/background colors in text areas can be changed. I didn't realize till now that the same configuration would affect gif backgrounds. Suggestion: Always display gif's on a screen with a light background, regardless of how text areas are configured. ------- End of forwarded message ------- ...This message brought to you by: NEIL EDWARD PARKS, Beachwood, Ohio mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.en.com/users/neparks
