RGBA is legacy and read-only here
RGBA is an older raster format. It can usually be opened and converted from, but it's long obsolete, so there's no modern encoder to create new RGBA files.
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Not here — RGBA is a legacy format with no modern encoder. We can often read RGBA as a source, but for output use a current format like TIFF or PNG.
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