[reportlab-users] transparency in unicode reportlab

[Jerome Alet]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 01:34:57AM -0000, will at phototropia.org wrote:
> Friends:
>      Will the new version of Reportlab fully support transparency?  If
> not, are we moving in that direction?
>   Looking at the archives, it seems like we already have some limited
> support, but the "transparency mask" mentioned in the user guide doesn't
> seem the same as the alpha channel you can apply in say inkscape or gimp
> to an object.  Older answers on the list say that renderpm doesn't
> support it, while Googling I keep finding a program called pdfmap that
> uses reportlab and claims to have transparency working since 2002.

In fact pdfmap was developped at the time of ReportLab 1.17 IIRC.

In recent additions I made to pdfmap, more info and a new 
interesting demo will come soon I hope, transparency doesn't seem to be 
supported anymore, but I've not tested with RL 1.17, only with 1.20.

Another possibility would be that when I developped pdfmap, I used
Acrobat Reader 5.0, while I use v7.0 now.

I've not verified what changed and when in RL though.

bye

Jerome Alet