2001.11.09 15:33 "Two questions re/ Windows ...", by Peter Davis

2001.11.09 17:21 "Re: Two questions re/ Windows ...", by Leonard Rosenthol

  1. Does anyone have a working Windows build of this? I noticed there's a makefile generously contributed for WinNT, but I can't get it to build.

If you can't find one there, we include one with ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org).

  1. I'm trying to understand how a TIFF image used as an EPS preview works. Specifically, if I save an EPS with a TIFF preview in Adobe Illustrators, for example, and then open it in Quark, Quark knows how to make the background areas transparent. I'm assuming there's either a transparency mask or a "chroma-key" color in the TIFF, but I don't know how to find it. Any clues on this?

It's stored in the Adobe "private data" (though fully documented in the Photoshop SDK) area along with other things. It's stored as a vector description (it's a clipping PATH after all ;).

ImageMagick includes an API call that will return the clipping path information to you in the form of an SVG snippet.

Leonard