RE: Background Gifs

[Henry Hartley]

 From: graficon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 10:33 PM
 Subject: Background Gifs
 
 
 Greetings!
 
 Please solve my mystery!  How do i prevent  an image from being tiled
 when it's applied as a background gif on a web page. That is, are
 background images special, or do i have to create a really large gif?
 I find it hard to work in gfig with a 1000x1000 pixel image.  This of
 course creates a very big gif for web loading...

You can do it with style sheets but it won't work for all browsers, I don't
think.  Go to http://www.w3.org/css/ for information on Cascading Style
Sheets.  I've also found http://webreview.com/ to have lots of good
information on CSS (among other things).

Henry

Re: GIMP GIF-PNG transparency woes

[Amy Abascal]

You may want to see 
http://www.burnallgifs.org
http://www.iconoclast.net/burngifs/
For more info about this.

In a nutshell, only a very few browsers support transparent PNG's.
Netscape for Linux doesn't support them at all.  This is very
disconcerting and it's why I couldn't change my sites over.  ESR had an
absolute fit at me over the VA Linux site and Don Marti just kinda
growled.

If you can alter your design to get around using transparencies, it would
be great!  Try making your image background color match your bgcolor.  

But that's not the problem you are having.  Your problem is due to the
fact that GIMP requires you to convert to RGB before it will save a PNG.
I believe that later versions of CVS GIMP have fixed this. 

Good Luck!

Amy Abascal

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, James Knowles wrote:

 
 Hi,
 
 I'm trying to convert GIFs with transparencies to PNGs using GIMP to
 produce a 100% GIF-free site.
 
 I take the following steps:
 1) Open the GIF (for example, the gfx_by_gimp.gif "Graphics by GIMP")
 2) Select "save as"
 3) Select PNG type
 4) Save 
 5) PNG options (compression) dialog comes up - OK
 6) I get a dialog that simply says "save failed - filename"
 
 It seems obvious that I'm missing a step, but I'm not sure what. I may
 be blind, but I can't find it in the docs. 
 
 I hate to admit that in my frustration, I tried using a [m$] program. It
 didn't even attempt to preserve the transparency. Ack!
 
 GIMP 1.04
 RH 6.0 
 Linux 2.2.3 with special SMP patches
 
 Thanks for any suggestions,
 
 James
 
 -- 
 Running NT is like listening to Kenny G with a kazoo.
 

--Amy Abascal
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