style level transparency

[Yewondwossen Assefa]

Normand Savard wrote:
> 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?
> 
  Not sure. I know that there is an opacity parameter in the style 
object but I think it is not yet used.

> Norm
> 


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