[Geomoose-users] PDF Printing - how to layer background transparent?

[Nils Zierath]

Dear Dan,
thanks for your response. Is there a workaround for transparent layers for now (other than 
taking a screenshot)?

Thank you,
Nils

Dan Little schrieb:
> I'll have to look into this, I imagine it's because the Image is getting converted to RGB, then having transparency applied to it.  The original "image stacking" code inside of the printing software was originally only tested against GIF and JPEG layers.  We'll need to do some more work to make the 24-bit PNGs look good.
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>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] PDF Printing - how to layer background transparent?
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>> Dear List,
>> this has been asked before - but I cannot find a sufficient answer for me.
>>
>> I got the printing running in 1.6.1 but in the output I can only see the topmost 
>> layer 
>> with grey background/fill (same in html and pdf output). Forcing opacity on the 
>> topmost 
>> layer makes the lower one shine through. However, it looks by far not as good as 
>> the 
>> Geomoose map.
>>
>> The layers I want to print are shapes on my local system. In my mapfile I 
>> include the 
>> following output format options:
>>     NAME        png
>>     DRIVER        'GD/PNG'
>>     MIMETYPE    'image/png'
>>     IMAGEMODE    RGBA
>>     TRANSPARENT    on
>>     EXTENSION    'png'
>>
>>
>> The layer backgrounds appear transparently Firefox, IE7 and Safari on screen. 
>> How can I 
>> tell geomoose to do the same when printing?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Nils
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