[Mediawiki-l] Transparency of uploaded PNG images?

[Jamie Bliss]

On 8/17/05, Morten Blaabjerg <morten at crewscut.com> wrote:
> Why won't MediaWiki apparently accept the transparency of uploaded .PNG images?
> 
> The transparency area is transformed to a solid grey or pinkish color :-(
> 
> - Can the transparency be maintained in such images, without installing additional server software? I am running the wiki without ImageMagick, as the wiki is hosted on a external server.
> 

On a related note, I found a bug with GD with it's alpha handling. I
had a particular PNG that had 24-bit + Alpha color. MediaWiki+GD2
either (depending on whether or not MW was hacked):
- Down-graded the color to shades of yellow and kept alpha
- Kept the color and lost alpha

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