Hi Steve, it was transparent and did work when I set the imagetype to GIF in the mapfile. This made the rest of my aerial photos lose a lot of visual quality but did make my GIF transparent. I previously had the Imagetype set to png24 because it displays my aerials really well. Unless I can get the GIF to be transparent in png24 I don't think I want to switch to the GIF setting just for one symbol. I have attached my highway shield gif. I hope you can still help.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Lime [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tue 12/20/2005 5:11 PM
To: Clever, Max
Cc:
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] gif highway shield transparencyissues
Max: Is the image transparent? Please pass along so I can have a look.
Steve
>>> "Clever, Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/20/05 11:06 AM >>>
I took out the TRANSPARENT line in the symbol file and the map still
shows the shield with a white canvas behind it. I checked my image in a
separate HTML with a colored background just to make sure the image was
transparent and it was. Is there a certain type of transparency that is
necessary for the image? Is there some setting in the php or Map file that
would not allow transparent images to work? I'm at my wits end. I am using
Mapserver 4.2. I really hope I'm not wasting peoples time with this question.
-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Steve Lime
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 1:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] gif highway shield transparency
issues
I'm assuming you must be looking at old documentation. To make a pixmap
symbol transparent you must create
a transparent image. The transparent parameter in a symbol file is
unused.
Steve
>>> "Clever, Max" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/16/05 11:17 AM >>>
I've tried ffffff and #ffffff and fff and apparently the TRANSPARENT
index cannot be letters because it won't let the mapfile process right when I
try those.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P
Kishor
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 11:35 AM
To: Clever, Max; MapServer
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] gif highway shield transparency
issues
Clever, Max wrote:
> Hi All,
.
> R:255 G:255 B:255 Hex:ffffff index:000 Websafe
> Transparent
..
> Am I not making the gif transparent properly in fireworks? I've also
tried "TRANSPARENT 000" b
000 is black
try fff
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Puneet Kishor
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