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I have found that Adobe 5.0 or earlier renders them badly, they look streaky or blurry. Adobe 6.0 often chokes on transparency completely, and when it doesn't transparent gifs bloat the file size. This is true whether dealing with Word, Publisher or Powerpoint.
Connie Giordano
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From: bounce-techwr-l-152079 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-152079 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of D.H. White
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:54 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Transparent backgrounds in Photoshop
You can create transparent backgrounds in PhotoShop if you convert the
graphic to a GIF file AND you use the Background Eraser or the Magic Eraser
tool to eliminate the background (render those pixels transparent). You can
then move the GIF version into any document EXCEPT PageMaker, FrameMaker, or
Illustrator and enjoy the fruits of your work.
Adobe, in its wisdom, takes transparent backgrounds and renders them white
so that those of us who stupidly created transparent backgrounds will not
obliterate any text that may lurk in that transparent background. It doesn't
matter that there is no text; that's the official reason. And, Adobe knows
of this issue but refuses to address it.
At least, that's what I have discovered about this issue. I can take my GIFs
with transparent backgrounds and use them well in Word, PowerPoint, and
Publisher files, but not in anything created using Adobe. Except for
Acrobat: a MS format file converted to PDF using Acrobat keeps the
transparencies transparent.
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