Good to see the forum is back.
I have a few pieces of correspondence made while it was down that I will
forward for the sale of prosperity .
Bruce
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From: stacho.mudrak(a)gmail.com [mailto:stacho.mudrak@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Stacho Mudrak
Sent: Tuesday, 12 October 2010 4:26 a.m.
To: Bruce Mutton
Subject: Re: color map-bg transparent
Thanks Bruce for pointing out this problem. Obviously it is a bug, I will
try to fix it when 5.3.6 will be released.
Regards, S.
On 9 October 2010 01:33, Bruce Mutton wrote:
Thanks for that nice example Stacho.
Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to do.
When I ran your example on my system it performed perfectly as I think it
did for you.
In the attached the functionality SHOULD be identical; I have moved the
map-bg from the export into it's own standalone layout.
However as you can see the map is no longer transparent.
I have rearranged my own larger project to move the map-bg into the export
command and it works perfectly.
So now I have a workaround, although it would be tidier to be able to put
the map-bg into its own layout block
I notice you were using 5.3.6, I guess you are just getting ready for the
next one!
Thanks
Bruce
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From: stacho.mudrak(a)gmail.com [mailto:stacho.mudrak@gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Stacho Mudrak
Sent: Friday, 8 October 2010 11:16 p.m.
To: Bruce
Subject: Re: color map-bg transparent
This is strange. I have tried it right now and it seems to me that it works.
In the attached example, when I set transparent map-bg in plan and then
insert this image into xelev as pdf, this plan is over the elevation but all
map-bg is transparent.
Could you plaease send some example, where it does not work? Or do we
understand each other not correctly?
Regards, S.
On 8 October 2010 11:32, Bruce wrote:
He he
Apologies for not waiting for the forum to come back.
color map-bg transparent
I see 5.3.5 accepts this now. Thanks
If "../Output/MiddleEarthPlan.pdf" was produced using the above line in it's
layout, then if the elevation layout included the following line;
map-image 0 0 sw "../Output/MiddleEarthPlan.pdf"
I would expect that the result would be the superposition of the two. Ie I
would be able to see the elevation through the plan view.
What I actually get is an elevation with an opaque plan overtop. (I cannot
see the elevation).
Am I misunderstanding the functionality, or perhaps I am doing something
wrong to get a non-transparent background (like map-header-bg on) or perhaps
another bug?
Bruce
