How to change standard transparency background to non white?

[PetCh01]

hi there,

how do i change the transparency background of the viewer (standard) to a color of my choice?
I do not want to change any graphic file, i just want to have the transparency showed in another color.

[xnview]

options>View>background color

[PetCh01]

no that does not affect to the picture itself.
that does make the blank screen around the picture in that particular color

[xnview]

sorry but it works

[cday]

options>View>background color

no that does not affect to the picture itself.
that does make the blank screen around the picture in that particular color

sorry but it works

I think you may be considering different parameters...

There is another parameter you could try: Tools > Options > Browser > Preview tab -- Background colour

Otherwise, could you try to explain what you are requesting in other words?

[XnTriq]

So is there any way to just get white layer as background for all viewed files?

Method A:

1. Go to Tools » Options... » View » View.
2. Deactivate Use checkerboard pattern as background.
3. Set Background colour to white.

Method B:

1. Go to Tools » Options... » View » View.
2. Activate Use checkerboard pattern as background.
3. Quit XnView.
4. Open the file xnview.ini in Notepad and look for the [View] section.
5. Add the following lines to the [View] section:

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   CheckerColor1=16777215
   CheckerColor2=16777215
   

6. Save xnview.ini and restart XnView.

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[PetCh01]

thank you guys trying to help me

i tried method A and Method B. and bot are not working for this.
just to make clear i am not talking about any .PNG files i am talking about .wmf (Windows Meta File).




just set it to green for test. as you can see its for the background but not "inside" the picture.

[cday]

Are you able to upload an example .wmf file, so as to be clearer about what you wish to do?

You will probably need to put the file in a ZIP or similar archive, current forum attachment limit is 2MiB.

[XnTriq]

just to make clear i am not talking about any .PNG files i am talking about .wmf (Windows Meta File).

As it turns out, XnView doesn't support transparency in WMF: samples

[PetCh01]

ok. thank you for approving this, i thought about that because i tried everything i could find about background.
cant use xnview then, because in whitescreen the green and yellow lighted lines in my drawings are almost not noticable.
sad