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October 24, 2022
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Making transparent overlapping images opaque (fm 16.0.4)

  • October 24, 2022
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Hi group,

I've got two partly overlapping images (PDF files imported by reference) in an anchored frame. When I publish my FrameMaker file to PDF (FM 16.0.4), I see that the images are transparent. How can I make the PDF image on the foreground opaque?

In older versions of FrameMaker, there was this button of the middle of the Graphic Tools pallette which I could use for this purpose, but it seems to be gone in Fm 16.0.4.

 

Kind regards

 

Yves 

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    Bob_Niland
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    Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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    October 24, 2022

    Quickly testing it with a couple of ovals created in Ai, the transparency does seem to be pretty militant … even though the Object Props shows a 100% Opacity.

    While awaiting more expert tips, I used to have to deal with this a lot in the FM7 days, and usually resorted to solid white polygons in the FM image stack. The simplest is to use the same Size & Offset as the top object, one layer down.

    I might even have used non-white color, set to Cutout in Color Views, so that these masks were apparent during edit.

    Matt-Tech Comm Tools
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    Matt-Tech Comm ToolsCommunity Expert
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    October 25, 2022

    You can often open PDF directly into Illustrator.

    Please try this and check the transparency of the areas.

    It's likely that FrameMaker is simply doing what is asked of it.

     

    -Matt

    -Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
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