Alpha 007 Released!

[Karl DD]

It runs great for me! But for some reason the C:\ menu keeps coming up when I run the program. Any reason it should do this for a final release? It did it for the pre-release which didn't surprise me but it's still doing it.

As this was very possibly a mix up, I downloaded it on a different machine, tried it, and there is no console window turning up for me. Maybe check that you copied it across correctly - delete the Alchemy folder and replace it with the new version.

VelenoSangue, tehmeh
Thanks for the reports.
Basically the library Alchemy uses to save PDF files (iText) does not support transparency in gradients - so as a work around I hacked the code to include the alpha data. It worked straight away in Apple's default PDF reader Preview, but unfortunately I didn't test it fully on Windows etc...
As long as you are not using Gradients it should work normally. If you do use Gradients, then different PDF readers will react differently. The worst case scenario is that the files will not even open, otherwise only the transparency may be lost.

The Export > Transparent PNG should still work fine.

Good job Karl!
Posted on CGDigg:
http://www.cgdigg.com/story.php?title=a ... 7-released

Thanks for that!

Karl

[blue_fox]

I downloaded the new version. Extracted it over to My Documents. I just tried deleting the whole thing and then re-extracting it. It still does it. This started after I was using the 007-pre version.

[Karl DD]

Just to be sure here is the direct link to 007 and also the link to the 007 debug version (both for Windows).

[Karl DD]

I have added a minor update here for you all to try out: talk/topic250.html
It should fix some of the issues raised in this thread.