Hello List, Thanks to those who posted answers to this question. I just wanted to tell all of you the solution that I came up with. I hope it will help someone else in the future. Earlier I tried to use the png format and it worked in authoring mode but not in shockwave. The reason being that it takes both the "PNG Import Export" xtra and the "MixServices" xtra being set to "Download if needed" for it to work in shockwave. The files look beautiful and the files sizes are smaller(quicker download times). Hope someone finds this useful. Rich Azinger PS - Below is part of my previous post. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hello List, I have a project where I am downloading a group of images on the fly to a dcr when they are called. I've made them all jpegs to take advantage of the smaller file size. But most of these are irregular shaped with white backgrounds that need to be transparent. The nature of the "jpeg" beast makes some of the white pixels off-white, thus not allowing them to be transparent. So I made masks for each of them. I know that masks are suppose to be 1-bit images but jpg format doesn't allow that and you can't change the bit depth within the dcr. But the jpegs work as masks, for the most part (more on that later), as long as I keep the compression low (or high depending on how you look at it). Here is one of many problems doing it this way. My mask is almost as big as the original image and I have to download two bitmap images for each image I want to display. <SNIP> </SNIP> Rich Azinger [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
