[magick-users] trouble with -transparent-color

[Anthony Thyssen]

Fred Weinhaus on  wrote...
| >Thank you to everyone for their kind assistance. :-)
| >
| >I have a PNG, there are parts of it which are transparent.  I want to
| >basically fill that part with a specified color, however,
| >
| >convert input_file.png -transparent-color #000000 output_file.png
| >
| >does not work, and the out_put.png file looks the same, with the
| >transparent parts unaffected.  How can this be done? :)
| 
| convert input_file.png -fill "whatevercoloryouwant" -opaque none 
| output_file.png
| 

Warning the above fails for images with semi-transparent pixel edges!!!!

Better to -flatten the image, to handle semi-transparent pixels
correctly.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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