Black bars in non-occupied space using Define Canvas action [#467054]

I recently updated ImageCache to version 2.4 and than noticed that black bars were showing in non-occupied space in my cropped/scaled images that use define canvas. Previously define canvas would create a white underlay, which fitted the theme much better than the standard black. I tested the actions using 5.x-2.3, 5.x-3.1, and even the 5.x-3.x-dev releases. All had the same result, it appears I have to stick with imagecache 2.3 and 5.x-2.3 in order for the Define Canvas action to work 100%.

Attached is an example of what is not right, the black area should be white. I've also attached a shot of the preset settings.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#1	imagecache_actions-define_canvas_with_crop_and_scale.png	44.53 KB	dman
#1	imagecache_actions-define_canvas_with_scale.png	39.67 KB	dman
	preset_config.png	31.85 KB	bobooon
	imagecache_sample.png	6.65 KB	bobooon

Comments

Comment #1

dman commented 19 May 2009 at 17:51

Status	File	Size
new	imagecache_actions-define_canvas_with_scale.png	39.67 KB
new	imagecache_actions-define_canvas_with_crop_and_scale.png	44.53 KB

Sounds like something we went through in #355230: Support transparent background for imagecache rotate
But why are you using crop there? That's the one that is creating that blank block.

(Note, I did also find a validation error within canvasactions UI that was breaking the alignment but not the fill - a fix for that is in the dev version)

... OH. You are still on Drupal 5... Um..

Comment #2

dman commented 19 May 2009 at 17:56

... yeah it's the same problem and the same fix in D5.
imagecache (proper, not imagecache_actions) creates those blocks when cropping to a larger size.

Comment #3

bobooon commented 19 May 2009 at 18:22

It works properly when using ImageAPI version 1.4 but using 1.5 it no longer works properly. I tried 1.5 with all the different version of imagecache_actions and none of them work properly. So right now I'm stuck using ImageAPI 1.4 and imagecache 2.x.

Comment #4

dman commented 19 May 2009 at 22:12

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Critical

» Normal

How about you just don't crop?
As I demonstrated above.
Resizing and then setting canvas is the effect you want?
Cropping an already resized image is not helping do anything except destroy your transparency.

Yes, if you 'crop' a small image to a larger size, the sides get filled in with black. that would make it an imagecache 'crop' problem, not a define-canvas one, right?