I work on Quark X Press 5 on PC. When importing a transparent background image (EPS or GIF) on a Quark X Press document a loose the transparency and the image gets automatically the white background. In particular, when importing an EPS file I get the message "PostScript Picture" instead of the image. Any idea?
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Importing transparent background images on QuarkX Press 5 (for PC)
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If you are designing for print, avoid the GIF.
Resave the EPS with a preview image. See the 'save' dialog in Illustrator or Freehand. Quark will not display the actual vector artwork onscreen. It uses the preview image that is embedded with the EPS. Quark only prints the vector art: the onscreen display is the bitmap/raster preview.
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Resave the EPS with a preview image. See the 'save' dialog in Illustrator or Freehand. Quark will not display the actual vector artwork onscreen. It uses the preview image that is embedded with the EPS. Quark only prints the vector art: the onscreen display is the bitmap/raster preview.
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I keep having the same problem.
As I work on Photoshop I have set the clipping path to keep the transparent background of the image and then saved as Photoshop EPS. But there is still something wrong, as I cannot have my picture with its transparent background... both on screen and on print.
jimoblack: what do you mean by "resaving the EPS with a preview image"?
please help as it seems impossible to solve the problem
thx
As I work on Photoshop I have set the clipping path to keep the transparent background of the image and then saved as Photoshop EPS. But there is still something wrong, as I cannot have my picture with its transparent background... both on screen and on print.
jimoblack: what do you mean by "resaving the EPS with a preview image"?
please help as it seems impossible to solve the problem
thx
The 'preview' comment would remedy the matter of 'when importing an EPS file I get the message "PostScript Picture" instead of the image'.
Are you also getting text instead of the image?
You sound as if you are able to see the image, but just not the transparency... are you able to modify the picture frame so that it does not have a white background. Select the image and CTRL-M to set the background color to transparent.
Photoshop probably created the proper image. You are just placing it in a white box in Quark.
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Are you also getting text instead of the image?
You sound as if you are able to see the image, but just not the transparency... are you able to modify the picture frame so that it does not have a white background. Select the image and CTRL-M to set the background color to transparent.
Photoshop probably created the proper image. You are just placing it in a white box in Quark.
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Oh no! The box is obviously set to color: none! In my opinion the problem is in the way the EPS with transparent background is saved in Photoshop. Before creating a clipping path on Photoshop I could only view the message "Post Script Picture", after creating a clipping path I can see the image in black and white but I loose both the high resolution (and colors) and the transparency of the background... I have started thinking that this is a Quark's bug on PC as anybody on a MAC is experiencing this problem. There are a lot of issues like this in the forum but nobody seems to have solved the problem.
Is it worth saving the image in Freehand EPS just to try another way?
Is it worth saving the image in Freehand EPS just to try another way?
Windows versions of Quark 5 are perfectly capable of placing a Photoshop EPS with a clipping path.
The problem seems to be with your saves from Photoshop.
Are you certain that you created a clipping path? Simply creating a path in the paths palette does not instantly make a clipping path.
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The problem seems to be with your saves from Photoshop.
Are you certain that you created a clipping path? Simply creating a path in the paths palette does not instantly make a clipping path.
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