Saving pictures as trasparent

[Lars Grøtteland]

Hello!

Having problems when I'm having two pictures in my file. The first one is a
background, and the second one should be transparent.

How do I do that?

Thanks

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

I would suggest the version of Publisher you are using does not support
transparency.

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[Lars Grøtteland]

We have the 2003 version of publisher.

Should the picture be created transparent before pub?

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Lars, hope you enjoy Pub 2003 it is a good version of Publisher.

What printer are you printing to you are not seeing the transparency?

What actually are you trying to achieve?

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[Lars Grøtteland]

Here is what I want to do:
If I have a background picture in my publisher file, and in that
background - lets say that it's blue. I would have a picture of a bottle.
The bottle has a white background and I would like to remove that background
of the bottle, and show only the bottle and the background.
I read that I could save the file as wmf, and that should work, but it's the
same problem.


please help me

What does the printer do? Should there be any difference between what you
see on the screen, and what's printed. That should be the same - right?

 

[°°°MS°Publisher°°°]

Lars make a sample file and e-mail it to Brian K to have a look at.

Make sure you keep the file size small as possible.

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[Brian Kvalheim - [MS MVP]]

Hi Lars Grøtteland (lars@nospam),
in the Microsoft® newsgroups
you posted:

|| Here is what I want to do:
|| If I have a background picture in my publisher file, and in that
|| background - lets say that it's blue. I would have a picture of a
|| bottle. The bottle has a white background and I would like to remove
|| that background of the bottle, and show only the bottle and the
|| background.
|| I read that I could save the file as wmf, and that should work, but
|| it's the same problem.
||
||
|| please help me
||
|| What does the printer do? Should there be any difference between
|| what you see on the screen, and what's printed. That should be the
|| same - right? --

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[Ed Bennett]

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I read that I could save the file as wmf, and that should work, but
it's the same problem.

Saving the file as a WMF often means more than saving the file as a WMF.
If the file is a raster image (an array of pixels or dots), then simply
saving to WMF won't work. You will need to trace your image or recreate it
in a draw program, and then save as WMF.
Only then will you get the advantages of the vector file format (i.e.
transparency where there isn't an object)