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Re: Saving picture with mask

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Subject: Re: Saving picture with mask
From: "Joseph J. Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:55:14 -0600
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At 9:45 AM -0800 1/28/05, Phil M wrote:

That's not documented behavior, and I certainly wouldn't recommend relying on it.

I have always wondered why the Mask was not set to 8-bit color.

Because drawing into 32-bit color is considerably faster (and actually supported on OS X, too!).

At one time, the mask was indeed 8-bit grayscale, but we changed that a while back.

Best,
- Joe

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