RE: MI No transparent whites for Teale's 24K quads

[Lepage, Mike L (Mike)** CTR **]

I had the problem, but with mapinfo 5.5 I could make the white area to be
transparant.

Mike Lepage, B.Sc.
Sr. RF Engineer
Turnkey Services
Lucent Technologies
314-891-2130
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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> From:         Tracy Walklet[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Reply To:     Tracy Walklet
> Sent:         Friday, October 29, 1999 12:58 PM
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      MI No transparent whites for Teale's 24K quads
> 
> If anyone can help, please reply directly to Pat at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>  Thanks.
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Patrick Akers 
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 10:07 AM
> Subject: No transparent whites for Teale's 24K quads
> 
> Hi, Tracy,
> 
> We commonly use Teale Data Center's USGS 24K raster topo quads (for
> California) for background maps for our data. They have a bit of a white
> border that will show up as a blank white streak if two adjacent quads
> are viewed.   In MapInfo 4.5, when we worked with two adjacent quads,
> we could make the white color transparent and remove the white seam. 
> This doesn't seem to work in MI5.0, which I upgraded to about a month
> ago.  Teale's procedures for scanning the USGS topos are supposed to
> be in conformance with the USGS's procedures for other states.  (Tracy,
> I took another look at those 100K quads.  The problem with them is less,
> but it may be because the borders are narrower.  Can't tell for sure.) 
> Has anyone had similar problems and is there a fix?
> 
> Pat
> 
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