I've got a lot of .gif files with transparency. When I upload them, they appear in the cache as .jpg files and therefore not transparent. Using: J1.5.15 and K2 2.2This looks like they are hardcoded in the backend /administrator/components/com_k2/models/items.php at lines 383-389, lines 427-440 (and probably more)Shouldn't this use something like:From:if (JFile::exists($sourceImage))      JFile::copy($sourceImage, JPATH_ROOT.DS.'media'.DS.'k2'.DS.'items'.DS.'src'.DS.md5("Image".$row->id).'.jpg');To: if (JFile::exists($sourceImage))
      JFile::copy($sourceImage,
JPATH_ROOT.DS.'media'.DS.'k2'.DS.'items'.DS.'src'.DS.md5("Image".$row->id).JFile::getExt($sourceImage));

Does anyone know of a fix for this?

Hi. This cannot be considered as a bug. This is how it was designed to work. All images are converted in jpg format.

Whilst not a bug, it seems strange that uploading a non-jpg file gets converted to a jpg and isn't immediately obvious.

I appreciate that this is a rare occasion but could we add this to the list of requests?

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. This cannot be considered as a bug. This is how it was designed to work. All images are converted in jpg format.

Hi,

There are no possibility to conserve the original format of images? Even with a hack?

Thanks

AFAIK, not without some hacking. You can get this to work but putting the image into the description of the category/product, but of course you then need to link it manually which is a real PITA.

Hi Lefteris,
Although not a bug as that was how it was intended to work, could you advise how this can be changed to allow .gif and .png to be used?

Simon
K2Joom.com

Lefteris Kavadas said:Hi. This cannot be considered as a bug. This is how it was designed to work. All images are converted in jpg format.

I too am stumped with this. The only way around this is for me to disable the K2 css. I don't want to do this, as I really like the k2 layout. Disabled, the .png file is transparent. Enabled, it has the nasty white box around it. I spent over an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my CS4, or trying to figure out if I was just doing it wrong. Finally I discovered that I was indeed not losing my mind. It was K2. I can disable the css, but jeez.