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I've run into a problem regarding the inability of IE6 to display transparent png files, or even gif files that are saved in RGB. The solution of course is to save them as indexed gifs. So, kind of a two-fold question here:
1. When I convert the rgb png to an indexed gif using GIMP, the result is horribly pixelated, which of course cancels out the point of creating the original graphic using Inkscape in the first place.
2. Is there a way in Inkscape to export the bitmap in indexed color rather than rgb? (also as a gif instead of a png?)
rgb/indexed color issues
Re: rgb/indexed color issues
If you want png images to display ok in IE just make sure there are no transparent parts in it, put an opaque object below the image and fill it with background color.
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Re: rgb/indexed color issues
prkos wrote:If you want png images to display ok in IE just make sure there are no transparent parts in it, put an opaque object below the image and fill it with background color.
Good point prkos, that's a useful workaround in some situations but the specific graphic in question is both a.) on a gradient background and b.) used more than once on the site over different backgrounds. Trying not only to keep the number of images to load to a minimum, but to reduce my workload in creating them as well.
Re: rgb/indexed color issues
If it's over different backgrounds and you only want that one image you have to use transparent png. Gifs only give you 1bit transparency so you can't use gif over different backgrounds with success. I guess the only way is to fix IE& display using IE filters, if your website is on Drupal you can use PNG fix module.
Or use different images for different backgrunds
Or use different images for different backgrunds
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Re: rgb/indexed color issues
Since afaik the only transparency that IE6 supports is an indexed gif - and yes unfortunately only 1-bit transparency as you mentioned, so transparent fades aren't possible, but at least with hard-edged graphics the backgrounds on the web page will show. I did some poking around http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... xport.html and discovered that Inkscape won't export a gif anyway (not even with "Save As"), so I guess the best I can do is export the rgb png from Inkscape and use GIMP to convert it to indexed gif. Not the simple solution I was hoping to find, but not a total headache either...
Why it produced a nice clean gif when I was playing around with it this time instead of the pixelated mess I had gotten earlier, I'm not exactly sure, but good enough I can live with it! Hopefully it will keep working as well in the future...
Why it produced a nice clean gif when I was playing around with it this time instead of the pixelated mess I had gotten earlier, I'm not exactly sure, but good enough I can live with it! Hopefully it will keep working as well in the future...