Re: Transparency

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know who the bird "Dove" is, but the bear will try to respond ...

Import of any object with transparency into FrameMaker, whether an
image file out of Photoshop or a PDF 1.4 file with transparency 
directly exported out of InDesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop results
in flattening of that object. PostScript does not support transparency
nor does FrameMaker's internal imaging model. The flattening process
tries to emulate the transparent look of artwork with non-opaque
objects via the flattening process. The flattening occurs when
importing PDF 1.4 into FrameMaker, not during PDF export.
Automatic flattening on import is somewhat dicey. I would recommend
that you import pre-flattened EPS saved out of Photoshop in your
case.

        - Dov  


At 2/10/2003 02:01 AM, Thomas V. Nielsen wrote:
>Reading the last couple of days, about PDF, EPS and FrameMaker, I
>thought I might join up with my little problem. I'm sure someone can
>give me an answer why it is this way.
>
>I have some PDF, created in PhotoShop 7, and in the export to PDF, the
>transparency is preserved.
>
>These PDF's is now imported into FrameMaker 7, and then saved as PDF.
>If I only do this once, there is no transparency in the images imported,
>but if I save the FrameMaker file twice as a PDF, the second PDF is
>correct.
>
>Could it be there is a small flaw in the "PDF import internally convert
>to EPS mechanism" that Dove described?
>
>It is just rather tedious to save the document twice in order to
>preserve the transparency.
>
>/Thomas


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