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  pdf files

  Posted by Scott Carroll on May 17, 2006 at 3:36 pm

  I am trying to animate newspaper pages that are in pdf format.
  When I layer them in a comp certain parts of the page are transparent. Can I change the matte to be solid on each file?
  Thanks,
  Scott.

  Mylenium replied 20 years ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  John Cuevas

  May 17, 2006 at 4:38 pm

  Had to do a very similiar thing a few years ago, though I left the pages with the alpha intact.

  Why not take the pdf, create it’s own composition, put a solid behind it, then drag that into your final output.

  Johnny Cuevas, Editor
  http://www.ckandco.net
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  Ron Lindeboom

  May 17, 2006 at 5:27 pm

  Another way, though probably not as elegant as John Cuevas’s suggestion, is to export the PDF as a JPEG and bring that into AE. This allows you to deal with it as a single image and not a bunch of objects. In some cases, it proves to be a little more convenient.

  Best regards,

  Ron Lindeboom
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  Mylenium

  May 17, 2006 at 6:29 pm

  Yeah, just like the others said. PDFs usually don’t contain a “canvas”.

  Mylenium

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