Transparent PDFs

[jkelly at pennysaverusa.com]

You're totally right.

Anyway it turns out the opaque problem I was having was related to a 
program bug (now fixed), not the non-transparency of the PDF.

I was still curious and found this, among some other search results that 
are a bit on the technical side:

http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Reference_%7C_background()

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creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com wrote on 03/12/2008 02:29:57 PM:

> On Mar 12, 2008, at 15:51:48, jkelly at pennysaverusa.com wrote:
> 
> > It's possible, but not from Distiller - see note below here:
> >
> > http://www.adobe.
> 
com/designcenter/creativesuite/articles/cs3ip_transp_20.html#Livetransparency
> 
> 
> To me, that's completely different than having the background of the 
> pdf be "transparent" as you described ("transparent where there were 
> no elements"). What I believe is happening is that a pdf must contain 
> a page box behind all content, and that page box is white. So what I 
> don't know is if pdf's are required to have that background box, or if 
> all pdf rendering engines draw the background box as white by default, 
> and if there is an option for a pdf to have "no background", therefore 
> making it "transparent".
> 
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