Re: Using PNG with transparency for a Shape in Dia

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 21:12 -0700, tony hartono wrote:
> Hi, I have created a lot of PNG file (similar to the attached one) for
> use in Visio. I have just tried Dia, but it seems that Dia does not
> support transparency if the shape and connector line are in one layer.
> If we connect the shape with a line in the same layer, the line always
> reside outside the unseen box. If we move the shape to a layer above
> the line, then we can see that Dia actually capable to support
> transparency.
>
> Is transparency supported on the current Dia ? (I'm using Ubuntu 7.04,
> with Dia 0.96.1)
>
> If not supported now, I wonder if you could support it in the next
> release of Dia ?
>
> If it's supported, I will share all my 'jelly icon' for the Dia
> community ! :)

Transparency is supported for images, but I've never tried having an
image in a shape.  However, I believe *none* of the current exporters
support transparency, so you'd lose it if you try to print, for example.

-Lars