[Framers] elusive transparent background

[Böðvar Björgvinsson]

As Reng Winfried says. EPS worked for me that way.

Good luck,
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson




mán., 31. jan. 2022 kl. 07:06 skrifaði Reng Winfried <
w.reng at carecom-solutions.com>:

> Hi,
>
> It's a few years ago that I had needed images with transparent background.
>
> As far as I remember:
> Use EPS format. Clipping path with background colour is transparent.
> Import this into a FM file.
> Select the file and in the Graphics toolbar remove the colour (Fill is
> None).
> (The display in the FM file does not show the transparency. Only the PDF.)
> Create your PDF. Possibly you have to use the Distiller.
>
> Bernd Meissner described this in this short PDF:
> http://www.meissner-dokuteam.de/Files/Frame/Transparency2_p250.pdf
>
> In the Adobe forum Arnis Gubins wrote a very detailed description.
> I think that you need only the EPS part.
>
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/framemaker-discussions/fm-transparency-rev1-pdf/m-p/4791795#M31011
>
> Best regards
>
> Winfried
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Framers <framers-bounces+w.reng=
> carecom-solutions.com at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of David Artman
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2022 10:51 PM
> To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <
> framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Subject: Re: [Framers] elusive transparent background
>
> Try export PSD to PDF and insert by reference (always, always by
> reference!). Alternately, depending on the logo, transparent GIF (i.e.,
> spot color logo) or even TIFF (gradients). Transparency support has always
> been finicky in FM, and even more so once FM went all DITA. WORST case,
> accept the suck and use a matching background color whenever you overlay
> anything other than white, even if it means multiple variants of the
> referenced image files. Hope this helps, DavidDCA:d.a.d
> -------- Original message --------From: Ken Poshedly <
> poshedly at bellsouth.net> Date: 1/30/22  16:29  (GMT-05:00) To: FrameMaker
> Users List <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: [Framers] elusive
> transparent background Hey Gang,Here's my predicament. I'm using FM 10.0
> (which I own), Adobe Acrobat Pro Version 9.0 (which I also own) and Adobe
> PhotoShop CS4 Version 11.0 (again, which I also own).I'm trying to paste a
> png file (it's the logo for an organization) with transparent background
> into a frame (front cover the the organizations's journal) with a certain
> color (the exact color is irrelevant for this discussion). I've opened the
> png file in Photoshop to confirm the background is transparent (checkbox
> pattern displays).But the background of the png image file always displays
> as a white box once it's in place in the frame on the cover of the
> journal.I've tried importing the png graphic by reference, by "Copy into
> document" and even by doing a direct paste via Ctrl-V but with the same
> results every time (white background in the boxed graphic).Help please? I'm
> glad to work with someone off-list and send them the files to experiment
> with.-- Ken in Atlanta
>
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