style level transparency

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at MAPGEARS.COM
Fri Jun 15 09:08:05 EDT 2007


I don't remember what the use case was for that, or if one was ever 
made, so I don't know whether this is important or not.

Daniel

Yewondwossen Assefa wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  One of the target feature for the 5.0 release was the support of style 
> or class level transparency (at least for GD based formats).
>  I had a brief discussion with Steve and after some tests that Steve 
> did, my understanding is that this feature can only be supported when 
> the output is a 24bit image and we wont be able to support it with the 
> current approach for 8 bit images.
> Do people feel that this feature is worth for consideration even with 
> this limitation ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 


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