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transparent background for buttons

rgottlieb
Registered: Jan 8 2007
Posts: 8

Hello,

trying to create a aqua button with text in photoshop cs2 that has a transparent
background and it always comes out white when I CHOOSE
an that icon in acrobat.

HELP

tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
Hello HELP!

When you create raster items in Photoshop, you must have your data on a layer. Be certain to delete any Background from the Photoshop file. If you open a vector object it appears on a new layer. Again, delete the Background layer in Photoshop.

When you save the file as a Photoshop PDF document, you'll preserve the transparency. Import the object via a button or copy/paste the PDF file and the transparency is maintained.

—ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.