Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

saw the article on sitepoint.com - (sorry, i don't mean to disobey rules, can I post the link here? just so people know what I'm talking about?) PNG8 - The Clear Winner

talks about using PNG8 setting in Fireworks and setting it from an INDEXED transparency to an ALPHA transparency and getting a transparent (yet lower quality) PNG image, that transparencies well onto IE6 and other browsers which TYPICALLY don't do well with transparencies...

Can I use the PNG8 setting in IMAGEMAGICK while getting an alpha transparency instead of an indexed transparency?

thanks...

At this time. NO. PNG8 in IM is handled very much like GIF with a single boolean transparency. No semi-transparency.

You can use something like pngcrush, optipng, pngquant, and pngnq
for shrinking a IM generated PNG image beyond what IM can output.
The last two programs are lossy, as thy generate PNG8 images (with semi-transparency) from a full PNG images.

No guarantees.