[Image-SIG] Saving GIFs with added transparency

[Fredrik Lundh]

in a message that outlook express refused to display,
Steve Purcell wrote:
>I tried doing this by setting the 'transparency' entry of the image's
>'info' dictionary.  On saving, this information was ignored.  Maybe this
>was the wrong way to do it, but if it's not, I have a patch to offer for
>'GifImagePlugin.py'.
>
>It involves the addition of the following lines before the 'return' of
>the 'getheader' function:

this is a classic patch by now; by some odd reason,
I seem to have lost similar changes at least twice :-(

anyway, something very similar to this patch will make
it into 1.0 final.  promise.

Thanks /F