[Framers] image background problem

[Dennis Hays]

Try saving the file as a PNG file. JPG files always produce a white b/g 
when saved.

Dennis


On September 16, 2020 6:30:46 PM Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> A question about an image technique that I've never been able to master but 
> it seems everybody else has -- dropping out a white background. I've been 
> assigned with producing a company newsletter formerly done in Word. And 
> though I do use Word when I have to, I'm 22 years into FrameMaker and -- 
> other than this -- it's usually so damn easy to do these things in Frame.
>
> The original newsletter (in Word) has a colorful banner with lettering 
> across top of the first page. I can copy the main graphic element (a 
> stylized color bar with a curved lower edge, similar to the Nike "swoosh") 
> from the Word file and paste it onto the top of page 1 of the new Frame 
> file, but I need to delete a white area from the lower portion of that 
> graphic (easier shown than described; contact me off-list and we can do a 
> share-screen Zoom thing so I can show you what I mean).
>
> I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to "apparently" successfully delete that white 
> portion from that jpg file; the formerly white area of the original image 
> is now the familiar grey checkerboard. I saved that modified image as a psd 
> file.
>
> But when I imported the new (psd) image to partly overlay another graphic 
> element on the first page of the FrameMaker 10 version of the newsletter, 
> the imported graphic still has that white area which overlays the other 
> graphic element. Which is what I don't want.
>
> What didn't I do or what am I doing wrong? Whatever was done in Word should 
> more easily be done in Frame, or so I thought.
>
> Help please?
> -- Ken in Atlanta
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Dennis Hays
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