[Framers] elusive transparent background

[Reng Winfried]

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
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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