[Image-SIG] Pasting images

[Rob Myroon]

I recently had similar transparency problems with .png files ...

In order to save a .png with transparency I modified PngImagePlugin.py.

I added these lines starting at line 427 in function _save()

    if im.mode == "P":
        chunk(fp, "PLTE", im.im.getpalette("RGB"))

    # extra code starts here (this is line 427)
    if not im.encoderinfo.has_key("transparency"):
        if im.info.has_key("transparency"):
            im.encoderinfo["transparency"] = im.info["transparency"]
    # extra code ends here
    
    if im.encoderinfo.has_key("transparency"):
        if im.mode == "P":

This works for .pngs with mode "P". I didn't test it for mode "L". Just make sure the
'transparency' member of the image's info dict is set.

Rob


--- "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> wrote:
> I'm confused by the behavior of the paste() method.  I'm trying to
> paste a PNG image onto a background generated by Image,new().
> 
> It appears to me from the manual that if flag.png is a 30x30 image,
> the following sequence of operations
> 
> im = Image.new("P", (60, 60))
> flag = Image.open("flag.png")
> im.paste(flag, (15, 15))
> 
> ought to leave the flag pasted onto the middle of a black background.
> 
> It doesn't.  All I see is black.
> 
> PIL 1.1.3, Python 2.3a0, Red Hat 8.0.
> 
> While we're att it, how do I generate a new image that is transparent?  
> Or set a transparency color on an existing image?  Setting the
> 'transparency' memeber of an image's info dict doesn't seem to do it.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> -- 
> 		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
> As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism
> is its adherents.
> 	-- George Orwell 
> 
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