On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 23:14 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 22:58 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:15:48PM -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > I've got an image that my wife created in pbrush.exe in Windows. The > > > image has a white background which I need to change to tranparent. Is > > > there a way to do this in GIMP? I tried manipulating the layers, but as > > > there is only one layer I didn't have much success... > > > > > > > If you want to make ALL white pixels transparent, it would be easier > > to use imagemagick > > > > convert <inputfilename> -transparent <color> <outputfilename> > > > > <color> can be specified by name (white) or rgb values. cf. > > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php > > > > And since the file is created in pbrush, there's a slight possibility > > the file didn't support transparency to start with. You can set the > > outputfilename to foo.png and let convert change to format also... > > > > W > > -- > > Seen in LINAC @ Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory: > > (A series of signs, each with a different "name") > > This 7833 Power Amplifier Tube is to be Called: > > Gassy > > Sparky > > Leaky > > Old Number 9 > > Just Plain Dead > > Nick O'Tyme > > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 20 days, 20:14 > > This worked - sort of. The image I needed to make background > transparent was a graphic for a web site. The file name was > JDAAlogo.PNG, so I issued > > convert JDAAlogo.PNG -transparent white new_JDAAlogo.PNG > > then I scp'd new_JDAAlogo.PNG over to my server box and loaded image > with a black background. It works great in Linux using Mozilla, but > when my wife tries to view the page in Internet Explorer the image > appears with a white background. What's going wrong here? Any ideas?
Nevermind. I converted my PNG image and outputted it to a gif and it works correctly in both Windows XP and Linux. I would have thought that IE in Windows XP would have been updated to know how to display PNG files, but I guess not... -- [email protected] mailing list
