Try exporting from PS to SVG or EPS. On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:07 PM Syed Zaeem Hosain <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are using JPEG format, these files do not have transparent > backgrounds ... if so, use PNG format for the images. > > Z > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers <[email protected]> > On Behalf Of Ken Poshedly > Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 3:30 PM > To: FrameMaker Users List <[email protected]> > Subject: [Framers] image background problem > > A question about an image technique that I've never been able to master > but it seems everybody else has -- dropping out a white background. I've > been assigned with producing a company newsletter formerly done in Word. > And though I do use Word when I have to, I'm 22 years into FrameMaker and > -- other than this -- it's usually so damn easy to do these things in Frame. > > The original newsletter (in Word) has a colorful banner with lettering > across top of the first page. I can copy the main graphic element (a > stylized color bar with a curved lower edge, similar to the Nike "swoosh") > from the Word file and paste it onto the top of page 1 of the new Frame > file, but I need to delete a white area from the lower portion of that > graphic (easier shown than described; contact me off-list and we can do a > share-screen Zoom thing so I can show you what I mean). > > I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to "apparently" successfully delete that white > portion from that jpg file; the formerly white area of the original image > is now the familiar grey checkerboard. I saved that modified image as a psd > file. > > But when I imported the new (psd) image to partly overlay another graphic > element on the first page of the FrameMaker 10 version of the newsletter, > the imported graphic still has that white area which overlays the other > graphic element. Which is what I don't want. > > What didn't I do or what am I doing wrong? Whatever was done in Word > should more easily be done in Frame, or so I thought. > > Help please? > -- Ken in Atlanta > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage > at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
