On Mar 15, 2008, at 8:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
Thanks for your emails and suggestions. Here is a reply to one
email that perhaps better explains what I would like to achieve.
One little thing I haven't been able to figure out is making PNGs
with transparency look nice, i.e. specifying white as the background
colour instead of the default black.
A 'white' background is different from 'transparent'.
Indeed. What I have is PNGs with parts that are transparent, and
want to either leave them transparent (so you would see the page
through them, i.e. white) or convert that transparency to white,
essentialy achieving the same effect on the printed page. What LyX
seems to be doing however is converting my transparent bits of the
PNGs to black.
Is this possible at all - and if so how do I make LyX / ImageMagick
automatically do what I described above?
Dawid,
this is a problem with pdflatex. The older versions from 2006 (or
earlier) don't handle PNG transparency, so you should update to a
more recent pdflatex version (how to do that depends on your
platform). On my Mac, the pdflatex from texlive-2007 handles PNG
transparency correctly, whereas the pdflatex from the tetex
distribution doesn't.
Hope this helps,
Jens
