[Framers] image background problem

[Doug]

Try exporting from PS to SVG or EPS.

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:07 PM Syed Zaeem Hosain <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>
wrote:

> If you are using JPEG format, these files do not have transparent
> backgrounds ... if so, use PNG format for the images.
>
> Z
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris.net at lists.frameusers.com>
> On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 3:30 PM
> To: FrameMaker Users List <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: [Framers] image background problem
>
> 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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