style level transparency

[Normand Savard]

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,
>
Do you think the support of style or class level transparency will make 
it for MS 5.0 release?

Norm