Thanks, Stuart. I'm working with this, and I think it will prove helpful. Jim
P.S. -- It would be great if Frame *did* support transparency. -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Rogers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 9:33 AM To: Pinkham, Jim Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Aligning Imported Graphics and Callouts Against the Grid Pinkham, Jim wrote: > I'm using FM 7.1p116 and Illustrator 9.0. It would seem that there > should be a way to get beyond/behind the standard white background of > an imported Illy file to show only the image. I'm not sure if the > problem of the white canvas obscuring the gridlines is an Illy > problem/feature or on the Frame side. In any case, the goal would be > to take advantage of the gridlines to position and align callouts. I > suspect I'm missing something obvious. What I see today is shown at: > http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=332480. Any suggestions as to > what to do? It's not an Illustrator 'feature' -- it's just that Frame doesn't support transparency. But read the Help entry on Using Grids. You'll find that if you set the visible grid lines and the (snap) grid spacing to the same value, and turn on Graphics > Snap, your callouts will snap-align to the grid even though you can't see the grid lines behind the white background. (In fact, you can just use the snap feature and turn off the visible grid lines, for a much less cluttered view.) HTH, -- Stuart Rogers Technical Communicator Phoenix Geophysics Limited Toronto, ON, Canada +1 (416) 491-7340 x 325 srogers phoenix-geophysics com I'll stop saying Microsoft is arrogant when Windows stops saying "Welcome" and instead says "May I?" _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.