Re: Transparent background with pdfcairo

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:52:52 am Christoph Bersch wrote:
> On 24.05.2011 05:35, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> > Christoph Bersch<us...@be...>  wrote>
> >>
> >> is there a specific reason why the 'transparent' terminal option 
applies
> >> only to the pngcairo and not to the pdfcairo terminal?
> >>
> >
> > So far as I know, pdf and PostScript files have no "background" to be
> > set transparent or opaque.
> 
> Correct, but in cairo.trm the background of the pdf is explicitely set 
> to white. This can be avoided with the 'transparent' option which is 
> used only by the pngcairo terminal

You are right. 
The default for PDF output should be transparent.  It already accepts an
explicit background command to override this, but I'll add your patch to
allow the {no}transparent keywords also.

	cheers,

		Ethan