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 _____ From: stacho.mudrak@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 _____ From: stacho.mudrak@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