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files with other colorspaces, you must explicitly specify it using the
`--colorspace` option.
- - Input images with alpha channels are not allowed. PDF doesn't support alpha
- channels in images and thus, the alpha channel of the input would have to be
- discarded. But img2pdf will always be lossless and thus, input images must
- not carry transparency information.
+ - Input images with alpha channels are not allowed. PDF only supports
+ transparency using binary masks but is unable to store 8-bit transparency
+ information as part of the image itself. But img2pdf will always be lossless
+ and thus, input images must not carry transparency information.
- img2pdf uses PIL (or Pillow) to obtain image meta data and to convert the
input if necessary. To prevent decompression bomb denial of service attacks,