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

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Ok, that works.

Thanks,
Nils

Dan Little schrieb:
> If the layer is an overlay, you could try using GIF output.  The image quality is not as good but it will function correctly.
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Nils Zierath <nils.zierath at uni-bonn.de>
>> To: Dan Little <danlittle at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: GeoMoose Mailing list <geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:49:26 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Geomoose-users] PDF Printing - how to layer background transparent?
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>>> From: CoFIS web | www.cofis.info 
>>>> Cc: geomoose-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:27:16 AM
>>>> Subject: [Geomoose-users] PDF Printing - how to layer background transparent?
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>      
>> -- Nils Zierath
>>
>> Center for Development Research
>> Department of Ecology and Resource Management
>>
>> Walter-Flex-Strasse 3
>> 53113 Bonn (Germany)
>>
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>>
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