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4.9: How can I make transparent GIFs?
Transparent GIFs are useful because they appear to blend in smoothly
with the user's display, even if the user has set a background color
that differs from that the developer expected.
There is a document explaining transparent GIFs available at the URL
http://melmac.harris-atd.com/transparent_images.html. You can fetch
the program giftrans by anonymous ftp from ftp.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de at
the path /pub/net/www/tools/giftrans.c.
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-PSP
On Wed, 29 Jun 1994, Simeon Warner wrote:
> I think Malcolm Vincent's request is very pertinent, pity I don't know if
> it is possible. A couple of times I've thought I've seen transparent gifs
> but each time the originator has just used the default Mosaic background
> (I've now changed my background so I can see the cheating!). Do we really
> have to resort to xbm's which are, unfortunately, rather large?