Clipping path trouble

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Richard Archer-Jones
Jul 1, 2003
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I’m extremely puzzled. I’ve been creating clipping paths of my Photoshop graphics, saving them as tiffs and then Placing them into PageMaker for sometime now, and they’ve been working fine. But I have this one graphic which I just cannot Place into the PM document as a clipped object. It insists on keeping its white square background. I’ve studied it and compared it to the other graphics which Place alright (without the square background) and I’m beat … I cannot find any difference.

I use the magic wand tool to define the area around the object, then Select>Inverse so that the actual object is defined, then go to the Paths layer, then Make Work Path, OK tolerance 0.5, Save Path, then Clipping Path, make sure Path 1 is selected and OK it. Works every time normally, but not with this one graphic. Any ideas anybody?
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Madsen
Jul 1, 2003
Richard Archer-Jones wrote:

But I have this one graphic which I just cannot Place into the PM document as a clipped object. It insists on keeping its white square background. I’ve studied it and compared it to the other graphics which Place alright (without the square background) and I’m beat … I cannot find any difference.

Try rotating the object a little bit in Pagemaker. Only 0,1° is probably enough.

I use the magic wand tool to define the area around the object, then Select>Inverse so that the actual object is defined, then go to the Paths layer, then Make Work Path, OK tolerance 0.5, Save Path,Clipping Path, make sure Path 1 is selected and OK it. Works every time normally, but not with this one graphic. Any ideas anybody?

You’ll be better of learning the pen tool. A path made from a selection has far more points than necessary.

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Madsen.
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Madsen
Jul 1, 2003
LenHewitt wrote:

That works for EPS, not for clipped TIFFs, Masden…..

You mean the rotation in Pagemaker, right?
I thought that it worked with placed TIFFs as well, but maybe I’m wrong.

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Madsen.
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Thee_DarkOverLord
Jul 2, 2003
I wouold only use eps if I was making clipping paths.
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Madsen
Jul 2, 2003
Richard,

Probably Pagemaker couldn’t handle the high amount of points in the clipping path.

A tolerance of 0.6 instead of 0.5 produces fewer points in the path but still a lot more points than necessary.

A circle can (and should) be described by four points:
< http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/photoshop/4_points_path.pn g>.

If you make a selection in Photoshop and out of this selection makes a work path with at tolerance of 0.6, this is what you get: <http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/photoshop/06_path.png>.

A tolereance of 0.5:
<http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/photoshop/05_path.png>.

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Madsen.

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