White boxes

[ALT2004]

When I publish a Director 8.5 file to Shockwave, I frequently get white boxes around graphics and film loops. How can I eliminate these?

[EdMX]

I think you are talking about 'jaggies' which occur on images that do not have
an alpha channel which are nonetheless set to transparent. The best director
can do without an alpha channel is pick one colour and make that colour
transparent, this leaves soft edges in your image looking jaggy as other
similar colours to your transparent colour are left completely opaque.

if you have nice soft edges you would like to blend nicely into the background
you need to use the png format for your images (or Tiff, but pngs are smaller
and more efficient) because those formats have an alpha channel and so Director
can blend them properly when set to transparent.)

As far as video goes I've no idea, I didn'nt know you could make a video
transparent. I dont know if any good compact video codecs include an alpha
channel, or if Director can recognise one anyway?

[JB]

The jpeg member compression option shoulld not be used for these used on
matte ink sprites, you can assign standard compression to individual
members .

[ALT2004]

Hi
I don't think I'm just talking about "jaggies", because these sprites look
fine with the background transparent ink when playing in Director (although
you're right--they don't have an alpha channel). It's just when the director
movie is published to Shockwave that the white boxes appear. It's the entire
bounding box of the image, not just the edge of the graphic (as in
anti-aliasing issues).
Any further ideas?
Thanks

[EdMX]

JB is correct (I think!), it's the way director is compressing the bitmaps for
shockwave. You probably currently have them all set to movie compression (which
is normally jpg), but need to save those images using standard compression.

click on the cast member, then
window>propertiy inspector>bitmap>compression>[movie setting] to [standard]

hope this helps.

[John_Millsaps@adobeforums.com]

[John_Millsaps@adobeforums.com]

Help! I'm not a graphic designer by trade -- our company just installed Mac OSX and upgrade us to Adobe Suite -- Illustrator 11.

Here's the problem -- when we take an Illustrator eps or tiff file and place it into a document created in In Design or Quark and that file is to be positioned against a dark background, the Adobe graphic has a white box background around the graphic that we cannot figure out how to get rid of.

Any ideas -- solutions?

[Gordon_Anderson@adobeforums.com]

John,

If you have Photoshop 7 (and maybe other versions), try bringing the image into Photoshop and do this:

[Menu bar] / Help / Export Transparent Image / and follow instructions

[Dee Holmes]

How are you saving the Illustrator file?

[Kiko_Borges@adobeforums.com]

Hey Gordon Anderson, THE BIG CLOWN!!! Is this the way Adobe do with clients!!!!!!!!!!!
For me 50 is 50 not 50.000001 OK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What the FUCK you thing you are MOTHERFUCKER?

This is a problem not a joke OLD MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!

Kiko Borges, from the "General UNITS in MILLIMETERS: PROBLEM" topic

FUCK YOU!!!!!! If you don't have the capacity to help people STAY FUCKING QUIET MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!!!

GORDON ANDERSON THE BIG, OLD, AND FUCKING STUPID CLOWN.

YOU JUST GOT AN ENEMY

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

Kiko Borges

So that you assign blame to the proper person.

SEE THIS THREAD. <http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.3bb401dd/1>

If you wish a enemy, then I am the one. Deal with your vulgarity. Me, I will just ignore you since you are not worth the effort until you grow as a person.

John Kallios

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

John M

One possible cause is that any transparency in a Illustrator file when it is not over another filled element within the same Illustrator file is seen as white when saved to eps. (since eps is a flat format)

[Neil_Keller@adobeforums.com]

Kiko,

A word of caution: Personal attacks or language in the Forums that extends beyond PG-13 will be summarily deleted.

However, contribute questions or responses in a professional manner and your visits here are more than welcome. Thanks in advance for your understanding and cooperation.

Neil
Forums Host

[Kiko_Borges@adobeforums.com]

OK Neil, I'm a professional designer and I posted a problem to the list. A serious problem for me. Your friend Gordon Anderson replyed my mess with a joke. For sure I retaliate him asking him why don't he got a job. And he send again a mess to me calling me clown and some other bad things. So I sold that friendly last mess to him using the John Millsaps topic because he blocks me.

So Gordon Anderson start the vulgarity. But as he is Adobe employee he could block me in the list and the worst, don't solve my problem. I send the problem to Adobe's Support too, and I expect that they don't receive the problem with a joke like you. But if the people Support are you I'm fucked.

I love illustrator and it is my main work tool. If Adobe don't solve the CS problem with MILLIMETERS I could use my 10 version that don't have this problem.

If you are in Gordon Anderson side. FUCK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!

[Gordon_Anderson@adobeforums.com]

Kiko,

Do yourself a favor and get a grip. If you really do look for help or advice on topics (either on this forum, with clients, or with co-workers) you might want to re-visit how you ask for it and how you respond to people. I'm not an Adobe employee and I'm not sure I would know how to "block" someone in the forum if I tried. My points on professionalsim and seriousness still stand, and case in point is your comments on Neil and the others. Reread their comments to you. Mine were semi-serious but included sarcasim and thus were probably not called for, but I wanted to make a point. Neil, John and the others totally took the high road and are trying to relay to you what gets results and what doesn't...and you blast THEM now with vulgarity??? Maybe you're having a bad day, but I've never heard a "Professional" designer converse this way. Time to turn over a new leaf. My apologies to John Milsap for using his thread to relay this info. but I'm done with it now.

[Kiko_Borges@adobeforums.com]

Professional young designers give the hypocritical people the treatment they deserv.

Sincerely, [edit] MR. GORDON ANDERSON.

[Dee Holmes]

John Millsaps, if you need more help, please post it under a new topic.

[John_Slate@adobeforums.com]

Actually I think the OP's problem might be the preview.

Save as a tiff preview (not Mac) and check the transparent radio button.

[John_Kallios@adobeforums.com]

Save as a tiff preview (not Mac) and check the transparent radio button.




This can give a false preview if there actually IS transparency that becomes white when saved to eps.

The irony of this is that saving it this way "fixes" the pict preview problem if there is NO transparency.

[Michael_Gianino@adobeforums.com]

I seem to remember that there was an issue regarding images that have been rotated after being placed (in Quark, I believe). This may be that bitmapped images with clipping paths viewed on the screen with white boxes (but printed OK), but I just don't remember. If this is the problem you have, you could rotate the image in Illustrator, and not need to rotate it in Quark or InDesign.