[mapserver-users] HELP PNG image seems to be transparent?

[Lowell Filak]

If you save the image from the netscape page and bring it up in gimp does it in fact have a white background? I've seen netscape prior to 6.x draw white when the actual background was transparent. If the background is white, I have no idea regarding IE.
Lowell F.

The following message was sent by Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> on Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:49:01 -0500.

> Hi all,
> 
> I have a nasty problem. I generate a mapserver PNG image and everthing
> looks great but it acts like it is transparent on IE but ok on Netscape?
> 
> The image is in a table cell with the background color set to grey. The
> problem is the on IE the grey shows through the IMAGECOLOR which is
> wrong. exact same url is fine with Netscape.
> 
> Is this an IE bug, are there any work-a-rounds?
> Need help fast if anyone has any ideas.
> 
> Thanks guys,
>   -Steve W.
> 
> NAME FIRSTMAP
> SIZE 400 415
> STATUS ON
> SYMBOLSET ../../etc/symbols.sym
> EXTENT -10.000000 35.000000 19.000000 65.000000
> UNITS DD
> SHAPEPATH "/usr/local/apache/data"
> IMAGECOLOR 0 128 255
> IMAGETYPE png
> TRANSPARENT OFF
> FONTSET ../../etc/fonts.txt
> 
> ...