[Therion] color map-bg transparent

[Bruce]

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 at gmail.com [mailto:stacho.mudrak at 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 at gmail.com [mailto:stacho.mudrak at 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

 

 

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