Re: transparent background in lilypond generated png's

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Johan Vromans <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I'd advise to generate postscript, and then convert the postscript to
>> png (with transparancy!) using
>>
>>  gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pngalpha \
>>        -sOutputFile=score-page%1.png -r101 score.ps
>>
>> (For the best compatibility, run lilypond with --verbose and copy the
>> 'Converting to PNG' command, substituting pngalpha for png16m.)
>>
>> Maybe LilyPond could add pngalpha as a generation target?
>
> Is there a reason to not always use pngalpha ?

commit 7f595671928233af9d1c76c5cb400f2010c65b72
Author: hanwen <hanwen>
Date:   Mon Sep 5 14:12:00 2005 +0000

    (make-ps-images): use png16m again, for sake
    of IE users.


How does IE deal with pngalpha images today?

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