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Re: transparent background [message #35294 is a reply to message #35285]

Tue, 03 June 2003 10:20

Rick Towler
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Registered: August 1998

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"Craig Niederberger" wrote in message...

> I'm trying to import a plot into PowerPoint, but I'd like the
> background to be transparent. I've been fooling around with the
> metafile display device, e.g.
>
> SET_PLOT, 'METAFILE'
>
> but so far have been unable to achieve a transparent background. Any
> ideas?

I don't know how PP will handle it but I would try writing a PNG file and
setting the TRANSPARENT keyword appropriately. Check the docs.

Some applications may ignore the transparent pixels in PNG files but I don't
know if PP is one of them. If it doesn't work, you could try using
Photoshop or a similar program to convert the PNG to a GIF with transparency
and drop that in PP.

-Rick

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		Re: transparent background By: David Fanning on Wed, 04 June 2003 17:40
		Re: transparent background By: Rick Towler on Wed, 04 June 2003 17:13
		Re: transparent background By: GrahamWilsonCA on Wed, 04 June 2003 16:43
		Re: transparent background By: Rick Towler on Tue, 03 June 2003 10:20
		Re: transparent background By: R.Bauer on Tue, 03 June 2003 10:25
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