Thanks Mehdi - it does help :-)
--------------- Martin Edge --------------- On 06/09/2012, at 8:05 PM, mehdi houshmand <med1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > I think we had a look at this issue at some point last year, as far as I > remember, transparencies aren't very well supported with the pdf-image > plugin. I think the best way to implement them would be to use transparency > groups to that you can better control layered transparencies. However, I > haven't looked at how easy/hard any of this would be to implement. > > We investigated this a long time ago, so I could be wrong, but from your > findings it looks like I'm not far off the mark. > > Sorry if that's not really of any help to you, > > Mehdi > > On 6 September 2012 10:46, Martin Edge <martin.e...@intellimail.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Wondering if I could get some advice on how to address the issue whereby if a > PNG is used within a PDF with a transparent background, and that image is > then put within a PDF, where then we rely on pdf-image to convert (because > ultimately I want to have the output use the less printer-resource hungry > postscript) – that the transparency is converted to a black colour. > > > > Obviously the easiest answer is to just not use transparency, but I am > dealing with PDFs supplied from external clients, so it would be better if I > have a way of managing this. > > > > Ultimately what I am using this for is to generate flyer sheets for printing, > where I am taking a base PDF as initial artwork, and then adding personalised > address information for each recipient. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Martin > > > > <image001.jpg> > > Martin Edge > > > > > > > > >
