mchambers Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 I have a template with a variable image in the background with a smaller graphic frame filled with white at 95% transparency (see file attached). I have tried the following with no success: Filling the window with white changing the percentage to 95% Creating an EPS / PDF out of Illustrator of white at 95% transparency and placing as an image Creating a grayscale image out of Photoshop with 95% opacity and placing as an image. Is there a way to make this work? Thanks!TransparencySample.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
step Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 I was able to do what you're describing by: 1. Creating a Photoshop file with the background set to white. 2. Converting the "Background" layer to a standard layer and setting the opacity to 95%. (You should see the checkered background showing through the layer). 3. Save the file as a Photoshop PDF with "layers" checked 4. Output a PDF with "Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities" checked. 5. Creating a graphic rule in FP to return the PDF I created: return CreateResource('/path/to/white.pdf', 'graphic'); 6. Create a graphic frame and assign the rule created in step 5 to it. 7. Set the scaling of the graphic frame to "fill." I should mention that I'm running FP8 rather than FP9 but I don't see why that wouldn't work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mchambers Posted March 23, 2015 Author Share Posted March 23, 2015 Works perfectly! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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