Image Background color changed in Adobe framemaker document

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

When I save file as PDF the image background changed automatically from grey to white in Adobe Frame Maker Document. Please suggest me how to resolve it.

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

Let's start with the basics - FM version, Structured/Unstructured FM.
Next, is it the image in the PDF that's changed or in the FM doc? Your wording is unclear.

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

FM structured version, image is in png. Image background is grey in FM doc but it's changed to white when I save it in the PDF. Pls check attachment, screenshot of both FM doc and saved PDF doc

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

FM version 2022

[Bob_Niland]

What image file format is the image?
Is the background in the image itself, on a layer below it on the FM page, or on the master page?

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

It's in PNG, background is in below layer on the fm page. Body page not master page, pls see the screenshot.

[Bob_Niland]

FM version?
Older FMs did not support transparency in raster images (other than clipping paths on EPS, and even that was gnarly).

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

FM 2022

[Bob_Niland]

What page element is providing the gray background?
It looks like it could be a graphics frame, anchored frame or table cell.

Knowing that, some experiments could be run.

PDF and/or Publish properties for Images might need a peek. For example, if the PNG is getting downsampled, using JPEG compression, the transparency could get lost that way.

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

then how could I save the  DOC with transparent image (the color of the page)?

[Bob_Niland]

re: …(the color of the page)

Pages, per se, don't have color in FM.
That's why I asked where it was being defined.
But regardless of where defined, if the output workflow is modifying graphics, all bets are off.

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

Hi @Barb Binder 

Please guide, when I save the file as a pdf, the background image of logo is changed on the first page. The interesting thing is when I print the document, the back ground color of logo is not changing. Pls check mailed file and suggest me the solution. Thank You!

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Hi Amit

You are using a 30+ year old format for the logo: Windows Metafile (WMF) is an image file format originally designed for Microsoft Windows in the 1990s.

Logos should be designed in Illustrator. When you import an .ai file (not copy/paste) you will see a white background in FrameMaker (because FrameMaker is also 30+ years old), but it will not appear in the PDF or in print. 

Adobe Illustrator logo in FrameMaker

After publishing to PDF

~Barb

[Amit Mani30445109n307]

Got it, Thnak you!