Making background transparent in image

[Joel Hammer]

Thanks. That worked perfectly, the first try.
Makes you wonder why they always dump on the "bloated" staroffice 5.2.
I was trying to get convert to do this, but, was not getting very far.
Well. Now I can relax. The pain, which lasted two evenings, has finally stopped.
This will work nicely. With postscript you can design and orient the
arrows any way you want. This will really be good.
Joel
 


On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 10:35:35PM -0400, dep wrote:
> begin  Joel Hammer's  quote:
> | Well, I have given up trying to create a flat black arrow head in
> | gimp. I have created on, quite easily, just using postscript.
> | Now, the problem is, I have a flat black arrow head on a white
> | background. Does anyone know of a trick to make the white
> | background transparent? Thanks,
> 
> yup. open it in the graphics app in staroffice and using the color 
> selector pick transparent, then flood the area you want clear with 
> that "color." (i spent a long time trying to do this to create a 
> transparent image the size of my desktop, in an effort to cook up a 
> way to have xscreensavers run *beneath* the desktop, producing a 
> constantly changing desktop image. never got it to work, but i still 
> think it's a good idea. probably should have asked raster when i 
> interviewed him -- *he'd* know how to do it, as well as something 
> even cooler.)
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