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Getting white background out of square graphic 1

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jbfish

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When placing a graphic from illustrator into a PageMaker document with a colored (CMYK) background the image comes in as a box with its own white background. How do I get rid of the white background so the color comes through? Thanks
 
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What kind of graphic are you placing? If the graphic has any raster effects applied, make sure the raster effect settings have the option "transparent" checked for the B/G. If the graphic is rasterized, you'll need to make sure it's saved with transparency options, and in a format that supports transparency (gif, psd, png, to name a few).

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Bert Philippus
 
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Thanks for your suggesion. I checked the graphic and the "transparent" option is checked and saved correctly. Any other suggestions? Thanks.
 
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Wait a minute, I think I remember something from way back about placing graphics into Pagemaker, and transparency problems. The solution, IIRC, is to rotate the entire placed object by a very small amount, then rotating it back and that fixes the problem. I'm not quite sure but give it a try, it might just work.

I don't have Pagemaker, so I can't check it for you...

HTH

Bert Philippus
 
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It loses the white background when you rotate it but when you put it back the white comes back -- it's an ai graphic.
 
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That's very funny. I rotated it .1 and it works. Gotta love it! Thanks again.
 
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