winters in buffalo Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 I'm working on a document in InDesign (v2.0.1) and have run into a roadblock that I can't seem to get around. In have an image set behind my text that I have set at 20% opacity. When I export it to a PDF, the image appears at 100%. I've even tried going back into Photoshop, tweaking the opacity there, and then re-saving it, but I still get the same results. Help!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Not sure. When you go to preferences, under display performance, is your transparency set to "off"?I couldn't find any other settings under the PDF Export feature that mentions transparency. Back-to-Back Fatal Forty Champion 2015 & 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patsfan99 Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 what level PDF are you saving it to? I think some early versions don't support transparency...easiest thing might be to find a way around it... either wash the image out in photoshop so that it's still faded but at 100% opacity in InDesign...or, the long way would be to PDF it at the highest version possible, then open that PDF one page at a time into photoshop, let photoshop rasterize the transparency, save each page, then create a PDF from the pages, or however it works best.... Photoshop will almost always rasterize the transparency so that it eliminates any issues... I know the printers I work with suggest I use the PDF x/1-a preset... see if that helps (?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winters in buffalo Posted February 20, 2007 Author Share Posted February 20, 2007 what level PDF are you saving it to? I think some early versions don't support transparency...easiest thing might be to find a way around it... either wash the image out in photoshop so that it's still faded but at 100% opacity in InDesign...or, the long way would be to PDF it at the highest version possible, then open that PDF one page at a time into photoshop, let photoshop rasterize the transparency, save each page, then create a PDF from the pages, or however it works best.... Photoshop will almost always rasterize the transparency so that it eliminates any issues... I know the printers I work with suggest I use the PDF x/1-a preset... see if that helps (?)I went back and re-tried that, except this time I saved it as a jpg instead of a PSD. That seems to have fixed it.Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meetthemets Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 If the image is at 20% and you flatten it in photoshop, it should appear and export correctly as a PDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fiasco! Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 editi'm dumb.....i just said the same thing everyone else said LinkedIn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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