Indesign transparency

[Insomniac]

Whenever I place a transparent gif onto a page in Adobe InDesign, the text on that page appears to lose some weight (and differs from the text on the other pages). What am I doing wrong and how can I fix it please?!

[.soulty]

is it a transparency issue or could it be that the viewing image quality is on draft?

[dru_nasty]

go to view>overprint preview, or print it out and have a look.
It may just be the way it appears on screen. Don't mind me asking, but why are you using gifs with Indesign anyways?

[Insomniac]

No its not the viewing: I published it to a pdf and the text was definitely lighter. dru, I have a background colour and I was adding a map to the page. I want the map's background to be the same so I just removed it in photoshop and exported it as a gif. I previously tried matching the background colour but the colour appeared slightly off when exported to pdf. Any other suggestions?

[.soulty]

why arent you using psd's in indesign, they support the file format and the transparency.. or you could be safe and use tif's with transparency.

[dru_nasty]

Do as soulty suggested, place a psd with transparency. That will definitely solve your transparency issues. But I don't see how adding a graphic can change your text. Like I said it could just be a viewing issue. You said you generated a pdf, but keep in mind the built in pdf writer doesn't always render all fonts correctly. It's always best to print to postscript, then use distiller to render a pdf.

[Insomniac]

Well I just tried that and the same thing happened. It must be a viewing issue I guess. What happens is as soon as the image is placed the text seems to fade away. Thanks though, I'll look into it when I go to the printers tomorrow.

[dru_nasty]

you could upload or send the file over, I could take a look.
If not, good luck tomorrow.:thumb:

[Insomniac]

Thanks for the offer man, hopefully I'll sort it out tomorrow