[Image-SIG] Transparent GIFs

[Takekun Sato]

You may consult an article
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/1999-December/000949.html

I hope it helps.

Terry Hancock wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A M Thomas wrote:
> > I've been working with the Python Imaging Library (PIL) a bit, and my
> > goal is to make some nice gif images of text, antialiased to a
> > background color of my choosing, with the actual background transparant.
>
> On this topic -- how exactly can you get transparent GIFs out
> of PIL? I'm using 1.1.2 and the manual says it writes GIF 87a,
> which I think means it doesn't support transparency. Which is
> bad -- From an idealogical standpoint I love PNGs, but the sad
> truth is that there are still many browsers out there that cannot
> render transparent PNGs. So for transparent images, I'm stuck
> with GIF.