Background with JPEG

[Art Campbell]

Well,

No, FM doesn't support transparency. However, you might run into a
disagreement on whether it's broken or not. As whoever you quoted
mentioned, the tradeoff seems to be support for runarounds or
transparency, and they picked runarounds.

Art

On 3/20/07, mathieu jacquet <bobitch at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I come back to what you both said about transparency after reading this
> technical note by Adobe :
>
> " Transparent Color in Images Is White in FrameMaker
>
> Adobe FrameMaker doesn't support transparency in image files (for example,
> EPS, TIFF, GIF, or JPEG). When you import an image, FrameMaker maps any
> transparent pixels to white to enable irregular text runarounds. If
> FrameMaker did not map transparent areas of images to white, text runarounds
> would not work correctly with the image"
>
> (http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=317850)
>
> So, does FrameMaker support transparency at all or not ? Apparently,
> versions affected by this technical note are 5.0 to 7.0...WAs it fixed with
> the 7.2 version ?
>
> Thank you for you help,
>
> Mathieu.
>
>
> >From: "Sean Pollock" <spolloc1 at hotmail.com>
> >To: art.campbell at gmail.com, bobitch at hotmail.com
> >CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> >Subject: Re: Background with JPEG
> >Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 13:18:06 +0000
> >
> >
> >
> >EPS with transparency applied always works well if you don't mind the
> >larger file size.
> >
> >--Sean Pollock
> >UGS Corp.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From:  "Art Campbell" <art.campbell at gmail.com>
> >To:  "mathieu jacquet" <bobitch at hotmail.com>
> >CC:  framers at lists.frameusers.com
> >Subject:  Re: Background with JPEG
> >Date:  Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:50:31 -0500
> > >The short answer is "no," because (besides being a poor choice for
> > >any
> > >publishing use other than www) transparency isn't supported.
> > >
> > >If you have Photoshop or a similar program, you can isolate the
> > >background from your subject and set it to white and still use .jpg.
> > >
> > >If you want true transparency, you need to pick a graphic file
> > >format
> > >that supports it: Photoshop's own format, GIF, or another...
> > >
> > >Art
> > >
> > >On 2/27/07, jacquet <bobitch at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>Hi
> >all,
> > >>
> > >>when you import jpeg images (pictures of spare parts), is it
> > >>possible not to
> > >>have a white or greyish square background appear ?
> > >>
> > >>Do you import in another format or is there a trick to have the
> > >>background
> > >>disappear ?
> > >>
> > >>Thank you all,
> > >>
> > >>Mathieu.
> > >>
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Art Campbell                                             art.campbell at gmail.com
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               and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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