or, how do i get rid of the white background?
I want to add a watermark behind the pages document AFTER pdf-creation (to be more exact: a light picture behind the text in the center of the page)
Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Pages has a base white object under every page when exported to pdf. It would be too laborious to have to post edit each page to delete it.
Best to just insert the object in the background in Pages.
Peter
btw Why does everybody want to do this? It is really an awful effect that just makes reading the text on top of it that much harder.
Thanks guys!
acrobat is no real option as it involves more work.
i think the white background is "a feature" or "a bug"… *LOL. so it has to be done in pages for the most elegant hassle-free convenience. i'd prefere the opacity-option, as it's non-destructive.
Tilo
Thanks everyone
the trick is the following: it's a daily rewritten menu card, that's published in 2 directions:
1. we print it on preprinted cardbords (therefore we need no background in the pages document) (30 times every day)
2. we load it on the webserver, to make it available on the website and to send it out via newsletter. (technically i have a automator printplugin created which does the job of inserting the same backgroundimage as on the preprinted cards and then uploading it to the server)
Well, I guess it does not look to shabby 😉
any ideas?
The watermark function in Acrobat doesn't work, unless something has changed lately, because it inserts the object at the bottom of the object stack which is under the white background.
Just making it part of the template seems to be the fastest and easiest route to me.
Peter
I really do not understand this about "white background" you are having a poblem with. When the "white background" doesn't print it is transparent in a sence. The white isn't a background!!!!!
If you look at the "background colour" palette you'll probably see it is transparent, the white square has a red diagonal line is selected. You might say it is just behind the text but it the whole page.
See Letterhead and follower sets:
I suggest building both the plain version and the background version into the one document and just printing each to either to your menu stock, or to pdf.
Your sample is restrained and monochromatic enough to maintain legibility. It is the overuse of busy colored happy snaps that really doesn't work.
If I may suggest an improvement, open up your leading and paragraph spacing.
Peter
Hi!
1. When you print from Pages with the white background on paper that already have an image on it there isnt any problem as the printer does not print the hite background. If you print a pages document with white background on red paper you will have a red background not white.You do not need the transparency. This goes for Pdf documents as any printable wordprocessor.
If I understand your idea, here's how I'd do it. Prepare your original document in Pages (Layout). Then place the graphic on the particular pages you want it to appear on and in the position you want it. Then select the grapic and using the Graphic Inspector adjust the "Opacity" so that it appears to be in the background. Sometimes this might require adjust the font to make sure it is easy to read.
Another post pdf option is to open your menu in Adobe Acrobat Professional and then use the watermark function to add the graphic. This is typically what I do now, but that's because we already paid the big bucks to own a copy of Adobe.
of course during printing that white background is no problem, as it does not actially print.
the hassle occurs when i want to add the background into the pdf (which is to be uploaded to the webserver for the newsletter): pages has already added a white background into the pdf. (I analysed that the pdf in Illustrator: There are actially 2 white rectangles as big as the page size). so when i want to add th background image (it doesn't matter how it is made: acrobat watermark or automator-action) the added background image is behind the white background and thus it cannot be seen. :/=
A concept you're missing: How about those of us who create graphics for Video, e.g. Final Cut Pro X.
We want a transparent background - preferably PNG, but we only get PDF option - to place on a Final Cut Pro timeline.
One track for the (transparent background) Pages' composition, on top of another track with moving video. Therefore, the video would show through the transparent background.
I can put the .pdf into PhotoShop, and use the Magic Eraser tool, but then I lose my "white type" in the Pages document! "White" is a preferred color for fonts on top of moving video. Even using a contrasting color wouldn't work, because of the areas inside of letters.
Pages is so much more fun to create graphics than PS. However, in FCP, supposedly we can import a PSD with layers, and each layer becomes a video track. I haven't gotten that to work yet. Used to 10 years ago, when FCP was more "desktop" than "pro".
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your Photoshop."
Pages pdf files are largely vector objects. Delete the white background in Illustrator (one click).
If you need to have vectors explained to you, search online.
Peter
or: DURING pdf-creation
Why don't you do it before in Pages? That you can do. You suggestions isn't built into Pages.
Thanks Peter,
I think this would be an workaround. But it's even easier to remove the background for the one output type. …
but anyway it causes work instead of simplification :/=
Purchasing new commercial software is a workaround?
I only have PhotoShop Elements. Does your answer pertain to PhotoShop Elements as well?
How to export pdf with transparent background (or NO white background)?
