You can convert them to swf files which will maintain the alpha of the png's

Photoshop, Illustrator and Fireworks have the ability to converting them to a swf file.

I am not sure if the trial version will allow you to save into the swf format. Perhaps do some research into open source alternatives as well.

Flash 7 doesn't support loading PNGs, so you need to convert them before loading into SV.

You can set your swf to a transparent background, but simpleviewer supports jpg's and swf's only. So, your pngs will need to be converted to swf's which will maintain the pngs transparency. Not sure what Felix meant either.

Simpleviewer supports swf files. Use them just like jpg's.
I'm not familar with Porta and swf's

Hi there,

I tried to use png's with alphatransparency (pictures with shadows) with Simpleviewer - that didnt work so i tried to find out a solution here in the forum.

Now i found the answers above and converted my png's into swf's with fireworks. Simpleviewer loads them fine but doesnt show the alpha.

Can somebody tell me how to keep the alpha? How can i set the swf to transparent background. If i set the viewer.swf to transparent background the included photo-swf's are not transparent. They are show without alphatransparency...

Woukd really be great if somebody could help me.

Greetz,

Doolak

Yes, i converted a png, wich included alpha.

When i just open the png, which i converted to swf, it had a white background. But when i just embedded it in html and set the swf background to transparent, it was displayed correct with alpha.

Just when i used those swf's with Simpleviewer they where shown without alpha, although i have set the viewer.swf to transparent background.

I have to let the viewer.swf know that it has to display the swf-pics with transparent background, too. But i dont know how.

Now i found out that flashplayer 8 fixes all those problems automatically - all the included swf-pics are shown with alpha. But i would prefer to use an older 
flashplayer, because i dont want to let all the visitors update to flash 8...

If there would be a possibility to include those swf-"pics" with alpha in older flashplayer versions would be really nice.

Greets,

Doolak

Yes, seems to work in Player 7, too.

I have been testing all the last night with severeal Players and Browsers, so now my head is turning a little bit around...

When i found that alpha doesnt work i was working with Simpleviewer 1.7.1 -
that version seems to have problems with alpha. Version 1.8 works with Flashplayer 7 and later.

As i purchased Simpleviewer Pro last night i will use that version - so now its not bad to have a working version up from Player 7.
If there is any possibility to use the transparency with older Flashplayers just let me know - if not i will take it as it is and notify those visitors to install a newer plugin..

Thanks a lot,

Doolak