DIP9 Cutouts and FP2003

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Vicki

I created a cutout using DIP9 with a transparent background. However, when I insert the .png picture, it is surrounded either by a black background or in the case of another cut-out a blue-grey background. Why does that happen? How can I fix it so the background remains transparent?

Also, I'm still wondering why my change of font in a template does not translate to IE when I open the site, but shows when I "Open Site in Front Page."

Thanks,
 
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Thomas A. Rowe

Did you import the DIP9 images into your current open web prior to using them on your pages?

What type of template are you using?

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Vicki said:
I created a cutout using DIP9 with a transparent background. However, when I insert the .png
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picture, it is surrounded either by a black background or in the case of another cut-out a blue-grey
background. Why does that happen? How can I fix it so the background remains transparent?
Also, I'm still wondering why my change of font in a template does not translate to IE when I open
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the site, but shows when I "Open Site in Front Page."
 
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Vicki

I guess I'm not sure what you are asking. The only way that I can use the image is to import it into my local site, saving and then publishing to my remote site. Which is what I want to do. However, because of the black background that appears on my local site, I don't want to publish it to my remote site.

I am using an FP template.

BTW, you can see an example of the blue-grey background that is suppose to be transparent on this website: http://edison1.com. It is the very first image. That was when I discovered that the transparent background wasn't so transparent. In that case, it ended up actually being a nice "frame" but it certainly wasn't intended.

The site on which I'm trying to place my current cutout is a different site, but same problem.

Thanks.
 
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Vicki

PS. I'm encountering some strange actions with FP2003 that I didn't have with FP 2000 and one is a question I recently asked about Web Appearances; specifically about customizing text and color in templates. I can't quite figure out why some of my changes are not translating to the web.
 
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Vicki

Thank you. I did change the image from .png to .gif and the transparent background is indeed transparent. Since DIP gives options to save images, why would I save an image as a gif rather than png or jpeg? Is it a better format for using on websites? I did notice that the gif file was considerable smaller than the png image. As a gif image, will it remain editable like a png image is.
 
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