Png transparency

[Cecile Muller]

I've been trying to just open a png and display it, that way:

<?
header ("Content-type: image/png");
$im = imagecreatefrom png('empty.png' );
imagepng($im);
?>

But the transparency is not kept. I did try in netscape too,
but it's visible even in explorer, when comparing how the
direct image looks and how it looks when thru the script, that
transparency was killed.

Ideas (on how to solve or at least which, from
imagecreatefrom png or imagepng, kills the transparency) ?
I got php 4.3.1 and the bundled GD of it.

[Justin Koivisto]

Re: Png transparency

Cecile Muller wrote:[color=blue]
> I've been trying to just open a png and display it, that way:
>
> <?
> header ("Content-type: image/png");
> $im = imagecreatefrom png('empty.png' );
> imagepng($im);
> ?>
>
> But the transparency is not kept. I did try in netscape too,
> but it's visible even in explorer, when comparing how the
> direct image looks and how it looks when thru the script, that
> transparency was killed.
>
> Ideas (on how to solve or at least which, from
> imagecreatefrom png or imagepng, kills the transparency) ?
> I got php 4.3.1 and the bundled GD of it.[/color]

If it worked in Netscape, and not explorer, that's normal. However,
there is a workaround you can use in the image tag:

http://www.koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/

HTH

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[Pat Scott]

Re: Png transparency

I had the same problem. If you create the .png as a 'true color' graphic,
it will not be transparent. When I created the same graphic using a '256
color' palatte, transparency worked fine.

Pat Scott
"Cecile Muller" <spam@wildpeaks .com> wrote in message
news:aff31ac6.0 308131736.7b1c0 e56@posting.goo gle.com...[color=blue]
> I've been trying to just open a png and display it, that way:
>
> <?
> header ("Content-type: image/png");
> $im = imagecreatefrom png('empty.png' );
> imagepng($im);
> ?>
>
> But the transparency is not kept. I did try in netscape too,
> but it's visible even in explorer, when comparing how the
> direct image looks and how it looks when thru the script, that
> transparency was killed.
>
> Ideas (on how to solve or at least which, from
> imagecreatefrom png or imagepng, kills the transparency) ?
> I got php 4.3.1 and the bundled GD of it.[/color]