Help with Photoshop and Pagemaker

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Alansys
Jul 16, 2005
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I have created a simple logo in photoshop and want to use it in Pagemaker and MS Word. I have selected the logo and deleted all the background so it is transparent. But whichever file type I try to save it, when I place it in Pagemaker it always has a frame with white background making it unsuitable to use on a coloured page.
How can I save it so only the outline of the logo is saved without any frame or white background?
I appreciate all the help you can provide.
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Bj
Jul 16, 2005
I think this problem is not hard to solve. If the logo doesn’t have to have more then 256 colours it shouldn’t be a problem to save as a GIF-File to use it in word. In Pagemaker it should work as well.

Go to File–>Save As and choose as format "GIF" as well as the folder you want to save the picture in. Then you see a dialog "indizierte Farben" (sorry, I use the German version so I don’t now what is displayed in the English version). There you choose "Transparency" and click at the OK button. Now it shouldn’t be a problem to use the GIF-File transparent in other application. I’ve tried this procedure with a scan from a book with white background and it worked very well in MS-Word.

If this shouldn’t work, then post again.

Greetings

Bj
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noone
Jul 18, 2005
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I have created a simple logo in photoshop and want to use it in Pagemaker and MS Word. I have selected the logo and deleted all the background so it is transparent. But whichever file type I try to save it, when I place it in Pagemaker it always has a frame with white background making it unsuitable to use on a coloured page.
How can I save it so only the outline of the logo is saved without any frame or white background?
I appreciate all the help you can provide.

Not knowing exactly which formats you have tried, I’ll take a stab at a possible solution:

Once you have the image where you want it (logo on white background), Select the white background. In Paths palette, choose Make Clipping Path (not sure of exact verbage, as I don’t have PS up right now – someone correct me on this please), then Save_As Photoshop EPS with Clipping Path box checked. In PM, just Place the EPS file. This should "clip" the background.

If I get a second, I’ll run through the process, and get the exact dialog on the process.

Good luck,
Hunt
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Odysseus
Jul 19, 2005
In article <42d91239$0$13764$>,
"Björn Hein" wrote:

I think this problem is not hard to solve. If the logo doesn’t have to have more then 256 colours it shouldn’t be a problem to save as a GIF-File to use it in word. In Pagemaker it should work as well.

Very unlikely a GIF will work well in print, though, which is the most common destination for PageMaker documents.

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Odysseus

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