[TriLUG] creating transparant images on linux

[Joseph Tate]

z wrote:
> I am looking for an easy to use graphics package that will allow me to create 
> a transparent GIF file of a company logo to emebed on a web page. Can anyone 
> suggest an open source application capable of this.
> 

ImageMagick, Gimp, ppm2gif and a slew of other utilities can do this, 
HOWEVER, due to the patent restrictions on GIF, this functionality is 
not turned on in most distributions.  Save to PNG.  It'll do 
transparency just as well as GIF, but without having to pay license fees 
to the owner of the GIF/LZW patents.  It'll also give you similar file 
size, more colors (gif only supports 256 indexed colors), and is 
supported in all modern browsers (IE included).

Joseph