Making an eps with no background: desperate plea for help?

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Elizabeth OShea wondered: <<I have a psd image. I need to save it as an 
eps. No matter what we do, when we (both my manager and I have been 
trying!) save it, white fills the space between the image itself and 
the virtual rectangular box the image is in. So when we place the image 
into an illustrator file, there are white edges around it that we can't 
get rid of.>>

If memory serves, the problem is that PostScript (the language behind 
EPS) doesn't support transparency. So the only solution to your problem 
is to fill the background around your image with the same color as the 
background the image will appear on top of. Alternatively, choose a 
different image format (such as GIF) that supports transparency.

Another solution involves clipping paths: If you can select the image 
and delete everything that lies outside the main image area (i.e., the 
white background that is causing you grief), you can partially solve 
the problem--but areas inside the clipped area that should be 
transparent will still be white unless you specifically assign them a 
color.

--Geoff Hart   ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
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