Hi Ken, It's not very difficult to get images with transparent background in FrameMaker. What you have to do: o Only if you have a raster image: Create a mask in Photoshop/ Corel PhotoPaint/Paintshop Pro. Everything outside of the mask will be transparent in the final PDF file. o Save the image (raster or vector) as EPS. o Import the image in FrameMaker. o Select the image and set "Fill" to "None" (via the tools palette). o Create a PDF file.
That's it. Best regards Winfried > -----Original Message----- > From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of > Ken Poshedly > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 3:42 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: transparent background graphics > > Well, first, thanks to all for your tips to help me get a good TOC > generated. I'm still working on that one, and while it hasn't > happened so far, I did find that several graphics pasted into some > reference pages from another document by my (not-so-FrameMaker-savy) > coworker resulted in prompts to find the path to them each time some > of these files were opened. > > After I deleted those graphics from the reference pages and > re-imported them correctly, no more prompts for them. > > But that's as far as I got on that because now, my boss has assigned > me a more pressing project, a revised cover design for this operator > manal (for a hydraulic excavator -- REAL hardware). After I > researched and assembled a great-looking cover, he held a meeting of > the project engineers (with me included) where those who only know > how to engineer started picking at and apart the work I had done. > Sheesh! (The cover got lots of kudos before the meeting because they > never had a tech writer here before.) > > So now, I'm trying to modify my cover design, but am running up > against a seemingly immovable problem: importing a graphic with a > supposedly transparent background that still displays a white > background. > > My "revised cover" is to be slightly grey (perhaps 20% black tint, > using FrameMaker). And the company logo with name is in red (logo) > and black (company name in a custom font which I don't know or have). > Oh, and our home office is in China and they do things very > differently there and are very slow at responding. > > I'm still learning the in's and out's of Paintshop Pro X2, so that's > another rocky road, but I think I successfully created a GIF file > graphic with "no" background (it displays in Paintshop Pro with a > checkered background) but only the red logo and > black-lettered company name. > > But when I import it, the background is white. I'm trying to keep > away from creating a GIF file with a 20% grey background because it's > just my luck that it probably won't match the FrameMaker 20% > grey cover. > > What to do? Please advise. > > -- Kenpo in Atlanta