Hi,
See this thread:
http://forum.world.st/Color-black-vs-Color-transparent-td4909167.html

Best,
Karl


On Sun, Aug 9, 2020 at 6:47 PM tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:

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> > On 2020-08-09, at 12:24 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I think Color r: 0.0 g: 0.0 b: 0.0 was/is reserved for transparency in
> forms with less than 32 bit depth, eg. no alpha channel
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> Yup. It was done that way a loooooooooong time ago for what seemed like
> good reasons at the time. Digging through the maillist archives probably
> more than 20 years would find the discussions.
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> I suppose the question is whether it is really still a good idea, and if
> not, could we fix it?
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> tim
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