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27.1; PNG binary transparency is ignored

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: ynyaaa <at> gmail.com, 47040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47040: 27.1; PNG binary transparency is ignored
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 17:14:09 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:05:25 +0100
> Cc: 47040 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Red pixels in the both images have 0 for alpha value, so they should be
> > transparent and invisible, but transparent1.png is displayed as a red
> > square with a green frame in a emacs buffer.
> >
> > transparent2.png is displayed as a white square with a green frame as
> > expected.
> >
> > When they are displayed in a chrome browser, inner squares of the both
> > images are displayed as transparent.
> 
> I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 27.1 in Debian/bullseye, so this
> may be a Windows-specific problem.  It may also be fixed in Emacs 28,
> since the transparency code has gotten a lot of work.  Would it be
> possible for you to check in Emacs 28 whether this problem is still
> present there?
> 
> If not, can somebody else with Windows and Emacs 28 check whether the
> problem is still present?

The problem is still present when using the default libpng, but not if
I use the w32 native image API.

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