Adobe Indesign Png Transparent Background

Resave it as a 24 bit png an 8 bit with a matte background color of none or a tiff with transparency.

Adobe indesign png transparent background. This box does not. That one prints fine with no dark blue background behind it. Indesign 2020 doesn t support transparent png and adds a colored background marined99882016. If you do make sure you saved the file as a png.

That only works with a white background. Select type detect edges. It always fills transparent pixels with white color. Drop in your transparent image by clicking and dragging it from your folder into indesign or ctrl d option d on a mac to place.

But the problem is when i use illustrator and exporting for example 10 icons with transparent background. I can t use them in the indesign directly. The logo above in the white light blue area is the same as the bottom one duplicated so you can see it. Earlier there were no problem with that but now it s just waist of time to go always after.

Unfortunately indesign does not use transparency information stored in a tiff file. As you can see above you can tell in the links panel whether it s really transparent. Instead there is a shaded box the size of the image object. Here s an example of a transparent png on a yellow background in indesign.

Copy link to clipboard. For various logos product pictures etc i have been cutting out the background in photoshop to make them transparent and saving as png then i import into the indesign file. Community beginner dec 18 2019. However indesign does use the transparency of placed psd files.

With a rather light background. The new version of indesign doesn t seem to be willing to import transparent png files. Use threshold and tolerance to get as close as possible to the edge of your image. You shouldn t see any background color on your image.

Open clipping path object clipping path options. Indesign could recognize a jpeg file with either transparent pixels or work with a clipping path. The problem is that when i print either from pdf or directly from indesign those png images do not have entirely transparent backgrounds. In addition it introduces a transparency effect with its associated problems.

And as others have said for print work it is probably preferable to use tiff with transparency anyway. If i print this then the logo in the dark blue area at footer ends up having a darker blue background behind it when the logo is transparent png. So i would recommend opening all of your tiffs in photoshop and resaving them as psds. Follow the steps above to resize and place your transparent image.

I tried with a bunch of different images with no background and indesign automatically adds a green or black background to it see screenshot below.