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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">So I used to be able (MS6.1 and older?) to just define a color and then set transparency to ON, and that color would be transparent. It didn’t matter if it was the background
or a feature that was drawn in that color, it just turned transparent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">I have a slightly different use case than most users as. I want to maintain a background color for the image, but filter out polygons (parcels) to be transparent in color
(not opaque) as an overlay. This is to represent all Public right-of-way areas, or rather, areas that are NOT parcels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">I’ve been trying for a couple of days now on and off to make the new methods replicate this capability, to little effect. All the new tools assume a transparency is going
to be applied across the whole image background. I need to be able to only poke holes in the background where there is a parcel polygon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">Is there a way to make this work like in the good old days (I mean good old versions ?? :c) of Mapsever??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">One suggestion I did find that would likely work, was the use a mask, but then I need a larger bounding area to contain the mask (Is there a way of defining an edgeless mask??).
Is this the track I should be persuing? I could use our City Boundary for this as a possible solution. Also, what’s all the stuff about a COMPOSITE block, looks like this is the future of masking type operations in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS","serif"">Bobb<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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