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

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no Dan, that was me. I sent my last message using an emailaddress that was not registered 
to the list. When I got the error from majordomo I sent the message again with the right 
sender address.

Sorry for that,
Nils

CoFIS web | www.cofis.info schrieb:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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