Pixmap symbols and transparent

[Howard Butler]

Try setting transparency to MS_GD_ALPHA

See http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=926 for some 
background.  Some documentation needs to be fixed up...

Howard

At 03:50 PM 11/28/2005, Stephen Davies wrote:
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>I am basing my symbol work on the recent "Construction of Cartographic=20
>Symbols" paper.
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>Cheers,
>Stephen
>
>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 12:17 am, Steve Lime wrote:
> > You shouldn't have to do that, in fact, I don't believe that option is=20
>even used any more. MapServer will use transparency if the image has=20
>it. There must be an error in the documentation someplace.
> >=20
> > Are you seeing otherwise?
> >=20
> > Steve
> >=20
> > >>> Stephen Davies <sdc at SDC.COM.AU> 11/28/05 4:27 AM >>>
> > How does one determine the palette indexes for use with the=20
>TRANSPARENT=20
> > option in pixmap symbol definitions?
> >=20
> > (Why is the transparency of the image file not used?)
> >=20
> > Cheers and thanks,
> > Stephen
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