Of course, this depends on what you mean by transparency.  If you mean 
to change the alpha of the entire PNG, then yes, the global parameter 
(or postprocessing) is the way to go.  But I'm not sure how useful that 
is -- that will still lighten things behind the figure and axes patch. 

A more useful option, IMHO, would be to just make the figure patch and 
axes patch fully transparent and leave everything else "as is".  That 
avoids the "white box on a colored background" problem.

Cheers,
Mike

Christopher Barker wrote:
> Nils Wagner wrote:
>   
>>   "John Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>     
>>> I wonder if we should support a global rc alpha....
>>>       
>
> I'd make it an optional parameter to savefig(), but I like the idea.
>
> Of course one could pretty easily post-process it as well.
>
> -CHB
>
>
>   

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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