Transparent Background?

[Ben Wan]

I have created a simple swf files, the background appares to be black when I put it on my site, how can I make the background
transparent?

Thank you very much...

[user@domain.invalid]

You need to have a codebit included in your HTML page. WHen you output
from Flash, select "transparent windowless" in the "Window" mode while
publishing with formats "Flash" and "HTML".
The code will resemble something like this in the HTML "Object".

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="your SWF" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="your SWF.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality
VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="your SWF.swf"
quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="your SWF"
ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Hope that helps you!
~ Ken


Ben Wan wrote:

> I have created a simple swf files, the background appares to be black when I put it on my site, how can I make the background
> transparent?
>
> Thank you very much...
>
>

[Ken]

You need to have a codebit included in your HTML page. WHen you output
from Flash, select "transparent windowless" in the "Window" mode while
publishing with formats "Flash" and "HTML".
The code will resemble something like this in the HTML "Object".

<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"
WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" id="your SWF" ALIGN="">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="your SWF.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality
VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="your SWF.swf"
quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="550" HEIGHT="400" NAME="your SWF"
ALIGN=""
TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

Hope that helps you!
~ Ken

Ben Wan wrote:

> I have created a simple swf files, the background appares to be black when I put it on my site, how can I make the background
> transparent?
>
> Thank you very much...
>
>

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[Trey Selman]

How 'bout making a transparent background for play in the flash player or
for inserting into PowerPoint?

"Ben Wan" <bwan0425@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> I have created a simple swf files, the background appares to be black when

I put it on my site, how can I make the background

> transparent?
>
> Thank you very much...
>
>

[Sindre Hiåsen]

På Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:24:58 -0500, skrev Trey Selman
<TreySelman@yahoo.com>:

> How 'bout making a transparent background for play in the flash player or
> for inserting into PowerPoint?
>
> "Ben Wan" <bwan0425@rogers.com> wrote in message
> news:agIdb.150023$Lnr1.138453@news01.bloor.is.net. cable.rogers.com...

>> I have created a simple swf files, the background appares to be black
>> when

> I put it on my site, how can I make the background

>> transparent?
>>
>> Thank you very much...
>>
>>

At the same time this theme is up. This functionality do not work in opera.
Why, and is there a way to make the background transparent in opera to?

Sindre

[Nan R]

How do you create a Flash file that has a transparent background?

Thanks
Nan

[nez9 webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

It's under file>publish settings (I think the flash tab) and just set the background to transparent windowless.

[Joanna_Roberts@adobeforums.com]

What is the best way to save a file and retain the documents transparent background? I know that it can be retained as an .ai file, but what if it is a logo, for example, that is going to a client and then onto print.

[Chris Colville-Walker]

Joanna,

To save as a transparent, you can either save as an EPS but sometimes that
doesn't produce well on other programs, or save as a PDF with transparency
selected in the save options box.

The best way I have found to get round this problem is to rasterize the
logos/pictures. Though this will bitmap them (ie, un-vectorise meaning you
can't scale in the same way) you can rasterize at high dpi levels which will
mean on-screen and on print you won't notice any difference (rasterizing has
an option to preserve transparency and so-long as it is at 300 dpi at least,
you won't have any print problems. but i would recommend to at least 600 dpi
for safety.)

I hope this has helped.

chris

[Ray_Craighead@adobeforums.com]

An EPS file will retain transparency as long as you aren't using special transparency masks or modes (from the Transparency Palette). If you simply have a vector logo and want it to have a blank background when printing from any page layout program, an EPS will work fine.

[Joanna_Roberts@adobeforums.com]

Thanks for the info Ray, I appreciate you taking the time to answer my question.