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NAME

KEYWORDS

SYNOPSIS

Parameters:

input=string[,string,...]

Names of input files

mask=string[,string,...]

Names of mask files

opacity=float[,float,...]

Layer opacities

output=string

Name of output file

outmask=string

Name of output mask file

width=integer

Image width

height=integer

Image height

background=string

Background color

DESCRIPTION

From: Glynn Clements 
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] Re: [GRASSLIST:10403] Transparency added
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:17:59 +0000

g.pnmcomp isn't meant for end users. It's an internal tool for use by
a Tcl/Tk GUI.

In essence, g.pnmcomp generates a PPM image by overlaying a series of
PPM/PGM pairs (PPM = RGB image, PGM = alpha channel).

The intention is that d.* programs will emit PPM/PGM pairs (by way of
the PNG-driver code being integrated into libraster). The GUI will
manage a set of layers; each layer consists of the data necessary to
generate a PPM/PGM pair.

Whenever the layer "stack" changes (by adding, removing, hiding,
showing or re-ordering layers), the GUI will render any layers for
which it doesn't already have the PPM/PGM pair, then re-run g.pnmcomp
to generate the final image (just redoing the composition is a lot
faster than redrawing everything).

A C/C++ GUI would either have g.pnmcomp's functionality (image
composition) built-in, or would use the system's graphics API to
perform composition (for translucent layers, you would need OpenGL or
the Render extension, or something else which supports translucent
rendering).

Tk doesn't support transparent (masked) true-colour images (it does
support transparent GIFs, but that's limited to 256 colours), and an
image composition routine in Tcl would be unacceptably slow, hence
the existence of g.pnmcomp.

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