Red Box covering content of a .pdf when "Placing" onto a page

[ajenky9]

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if someone might be able to explain why this is happening to my pdf's that I'm placing into an InDesign file.

As you can see, in the PDF I am importing, there are two red rectangles covering pictures of uniform colours when I place that file into my document. It is not there in the actual file itself, so I'm sure it's just a setting I am missing.

Any tips on how to resolve this would be appreciated. Thanks

[John Mensinger]

Does the frame have a fill color applied?

[ajenky9 · Accepted solution]

It does not, but based on that question I was able to resolve the issue. I deleted the object and re-placed it with the "SHOW IMPORT OPTIONS" box selected, then inside of those options I de-selected "TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND" and that got rid of the boxes.

Strange that only those sections were being covered with a red box when there was no fill colour or anything behind it, but at least now they are no longer there.

So in a roundabout way, thank you, John!