gif with clear background not working

if it's an animated gif, it appears to be a bug.

If it's still images, at least you can use the instant alpha tool to "fix" it till Apple figures it out.

I'm seeing something a little bit different. Get the two animated .gifs from the bottom of this page.

http://yy2.hkcampus.net/~yy2-nfw/gif/transparent.html

Neither one appears to animate for me, but the one on the right IS at least showing up transparent. How does it work for you?

Ok, need to change this a bit. I was dragging and dropping from the web page. This had the effect of changing the file to a .tif, so that's why 1) it didn't animate and 2) it was transparent.

When saving to my HD FIRST then dropping it in, I do see the same thing.

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Ok, a little more information, but still no solution. It's coming in as a QuickTime movie, BUT it seems there may be something different about how the iWork apps do transparency now. Previously, (since this still works in iWork '06) they may have performed the transparency themselves. Now it appears that it's adhering to the transparency/mask that's in QuickTime and QT doesn't have the right info...

If you've got QuickTime Pro, you can play around with the transparency settings, but I haven't gotten too far with those for animated objects. For non-animated, if you convert the non-white portion to a solid black shape, you should get the effect you want, BUT it'd have to be done for EACH .gif. I'm going to check to see if these graphics will then work in iWork '06.

Annd, yes, it will work. I'm hoping something comes up in the interim that allows the regular .gif's to work. (Just to clarify -for myself LOL!- Because I can create a QuickTime masked gif that DOES work as expected perhaps QuickTime needs to read this info from the .gif when importing it and place it as the mask)

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Another avenue to examine is to see if we can get the .gif into a Quartz Composition and see if that works.