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- Tomasz
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png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 4 months ago
- Sorry if this has been asked and answered 100 times. I've looked everywhere. I've tried every fix for png's in IE6, but I still get a solid where it should be transparent. Specifically, I'm trying to replace the header-bg.png's in replicant. I've tried tweakpng - nothing seems to work.
  
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  Thanks and (again) sorry!
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- Bob Ateah
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 4 months ago
- What image editor are you using? Fireworks is best in my opinion, but Photoshop can do the job.
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- Tomasz
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 4 months ago
- i'm using photoshop. don't have fireworks. is there some setting for making transparencies work?
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- David Parrish
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 4 months ago
- are you saving as 32-bit PNG?
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- Robert M
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- I'm having this same exact problem - but with dimensions. I made a couple of changes to some of the transparent images and they are now showing up as a solid light grey/blue in Internet Explorer 6. I am saving the .png files in fireworks using export, 32-bit png. Is there something I'm doing wrong or looking over? I know it is possible because the image I changed was transparent before I saved the changes and copied over it.
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- David Parrish
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- it sounds as thought the ping fix file isn't loading, or isn't operating on those images. Try replacing the ones that you copied with the original for the template once again to establish whether the issue is the image, or the code.
  
  If the originals still work, we know you have an image issue. We use fire fox all day exporting 32-bit transparent PNG files without issue. We export from the slices, (right click, export selected slice) not by using the export... function under 'file', but one would expect that to work in the same way...
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- Robert M
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- I replaced it with the original image and it seems that it is also not transparent so I think you are right about the fix not loading. Are there any known solutions for that?
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago

your pngfix.htc file is not loading. ie can be tempermental about this - not loading the png fix if the reference to it does not include the http://www.yoursite.com.  Look at this:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
#fxTab {background: none; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/images/<?php echo $tstyle; ?>/fx-tab.png', sizingMethod='scale', enabled='true');}
img, a, span { behavior: url(<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/css/iepngfix.htc); }
</style>
<link href="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/css/template_ie6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<![endif]-->

I believe that we had to modify the code to use

<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site;?>/templates/<?php echo $mainframe->getTemplate(); ?>/css/iepngfix.htc

on the the line that begins with img, a, span. Also, the img, a, span, etc dictates which elements the pngfix affects...

Last Edit: 17 years 3 months ago by David Parrish.

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- Robert M
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- Thanks - I tried replacing that with:
  
  
  
  With no luck.
  I went ahead and reinstalled the original template, and all of the images are now showing as transparent in IE6. I'm going to try replacing just the one header-bg.png image now to see what happens.
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- Tomasz
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Re: png tranpsarency - tried everything

Posted 17 years 3 months ago
- This .png thing has been driving me nuts. I finally fixed the issues (today) with the ultimate png fix mambot
  
  http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,859/Itemid,35/
  
  All this aggravation once again because of some bad, retrograde software that won't go away!
  
  Tomasz
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