Re: Transparent Backgrounds & Animated GIFs

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From: Crash Gordon (SPAMwebmaster_at_siriussystems.com)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 22:23:21 -0700

if it the animated .gif background isn't already transparent it would be a major pain to make it so - probably impossible unless you have copies of all the images used to create the animate gif in the first place.

what color was the page background on your brother's home page?

"Marc Solovitz" <msolovitz@protovista.com> wrote in message news:A1D4CFBA-A4E6-40F3-A877-D407835F0563@microsoft.com...
| I downloaded an animated GIF from ClipArt and stored it in a Word doc with other potential graphics for my use. When I inserted it on a FrontPage Web page, with a colored background, it appeared with the white block. The FrontPage image tools gray-out the transparency feature when I select this animated GIF.
| Meanwhile, I sent this animated GIF to my brother in an e-mail, from the same source. (copied and pasted onto my e-mail...no attachment). He selected and copied the image and filed it locally. Then they added the animated GIF to their small HTML (not FrontPage, or any other software) Home page. It comes up without the white block ??? Why ?
|
| ----- Tom Pepper Willett wrote: -----
|
| Animated gifs are composed of several different frames, each frame a
| separate image. Unless each image in the frame was designed for
| transparency, it won't be transparent. You would have to have a gif
| animation tool to break the image a part, and an image editing program to
| give it the transparencies, then put the image back to together in the gif
| animation tool.
| --
| -----
| Tom Pepper Willett
| Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
| http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
| http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
| ----
| "Marc Solovitz" <msolovitz@protovista.com> wrote in message
| news:247584A8-3B30-480B-83B9-FBB0315BD1E3@microsoft.com...
| | When using HTML, it is possible to insert an animated GIF on a page with
| a colored background and have it appear without the annoying "white-block"
| behind it. In FrontPage, animated GIFs appear with this white block, and
| "trransparency" is grayed-out when the graphic is selected. (When the
| animated GIF is acquired from a local file). Animated Clip-Art inserted
| directly, will work properly ???
| | I can't see what is causing this in the HTML code. How can I create a
| transparent background for an animated GIF in FrontPage?
|
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|

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