Question

I’m hearing people say that it is not.

However, I created a TBitmap and cleared the entire area by

For I := 1 to bmp.Width do
  For J := 0 to bmp.Height do
    bmp.canvas.Pixels[I,J]:= $00000000;

Then I drew anti-aliased text onto the bitmap and saved it to file. Upon opening it in gimp it shows the transparency information.

Does anyone have a definitive answer on this and if it does work then more information on how it works? I’ve tried playing around with the last byte and I’m not getting the expected results when i open it in gimp.

Answer 1

It does, but you have to set

bmp.PixelFormat := pf32bit;