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Transparent PNG and GDI+


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I have a form that uploads images and resizes them if they exceed the maximum size. Everything works great except when uploading transparent PNG images. They lose transparency and the background turns a grayish color.Any ideas on how to stop this?

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I know in Cold Fusion this would be directly related to the server side custom tag that I would be calling to do the resizing - my code would not be able to do anythinng about it.In ASP or .NET, are you calling functions from within a standard DLL? Or are you installing an "after market" DLL to perform the task?

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I am using the System.Drawing class that is built into .Net.

I wonder if it is just a limitation in that class then. Have you researched any aftermarket .NET classes that may offer more functionality and even perhaps address the transparency issue. I can't see how you are doing anything wrong as I understand that the transparency characteristic is something that is specially treated by the appropriate software and can easily be dropped if a transparent image is opened and saved in a program that doesn't support that capability.
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ok, I discovered the problem...it is not ASP.Net at all...it is IE5.5 & 6 (go figure).They do not fully support transparent PNG. The PNGs show up fine in FF. So once again I am cursing IE...I must find a CSS hack to fix this. I'll post the hack when I find it.Alos I have read that PNG Tranparency is a promise of IE7...way over due if you ask me (along with lots of other things...like WEB STANDARDS COMPLIENCE :)).

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