Clark Mills <c.mills@auckland.ac.nz> writes: > http://c-mills.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/transparent.png > > If you view this image from Linux in Galeon 1.2.6 or Netscape/7.0 > all looks fine however if you print the image from within these > applications then the _erased_ section prints as if it was never > erased. Cute. pngtopnm will also uncover the "erased" area. Gimp's eraser simply modifies the alpha channel, leaving RGB channels intact. If something later sets transparency to zero (e.g. because the output device/format doesn't support it), the original data appears again. Something to keep in mind. > I let the Gimp people know this but they replied considering it a > feature not a bug which could be the case in some/most > circumstances, Bug #97167. Perhaps it should be an option to the eraser to clear RGB as well. FWIW, my Gimp (1.2.3) has ">Image>Alpha>Clear Alpha..." which will do that for the whole layer/image. It is a standard gimp-perl plugin, apparently. -- Robbe
