[reportlab-users] RGBA Colors

[Robin Becker]

Kevin D Smith wrote:
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>> I'm not convinced the alpha things apply to images, Kevin says they do, but is that from observation or just an assertion. Perhaps images count as something filled or stroked. I haven't tried it out yet.

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>> Robin Becker

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> Just coincidentally, I was doing something with images this morning and I had used a color with a 0.5 alpha just before putting in the image.  When I did that, the image came out with 0.5 alpha as well.  I actually had to set the canvas alpha to 1 in this case to make it look like I wanted it to.  So it does work, at least in the case of the drawImage method.

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yes I just tried and it seems that images are regarded as filled.

On the other hand I am really not comfortable that drawing an image will change 
the way following text gets drawn.
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Robin Becker