Chapter 94. Think Outside the Box: Transparency & Printing
Transparency, as we discuss in Chapters 84 and 85, is the visual interaction of objects which have differing degrees of opacity. InDesign lets you make objects transparent, and you can import transparent graphics from Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat. This gives you some design and production capabilities far beyond what you can create in QuarkXPress. However, you must consider some important consequences of using transparency when printing.
Transparency Must Be Flattened
When it comes time to print, the beautiful transparent effects that you’ve created must be sent to a machine which doesn’t know what transparency is. PostScript—the language spoken by most laser printers, imagesetters, ...
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