Clipping path into pages
I have difficulties with importing a picture without background - made as a clipping path in Photoshop - into a Pages document. Did Pages not support clipping paths. I have tried with several formats - .tiff, . png etc
A newcomer - and satisfied - user of Mac and Pages from Copenhagen
Thanks in advance - Frank
Hello Frank,
the easiest way is, create your motive in Photoshop in extra layers and delete the empty background layer. Than save the image you want to use in Pages as a PSD or PNG file. The transparent background will remain.
The other easy way is to use the mask function of Pages. But with this you will get hard cutted borders and no gradiend alpha areas. Just insert the image, insert a shape you want to have as a mask or draw the mask shape with the draw tool (at the bottom of the menu "Inset > Shape"). Now make sure the image and the mask are overlapping (it doesn't matter which one is in front) and choose the menu item "Format > Mask with Shape".
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class Gp1_Upload{
protected $_uploaded = array();
protected $_destination;
protected $_max = 51200;
protected $_messages = array();
protected $_permitted = array('image/gif',
'image/jpeg',
'image/pjpeg',
'image/png');
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public function __construct($path) {
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public function getuploadpath (){
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return number_format($this->_max/1024, 1) . 'kB';
public function setMaxSize($num) {
if (!is_numeric($num)) {
throw new Exception("Maximum size must be a number.");
$this->_max = (int) $num;
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$this->_renamed = false;
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} else {
$this->processFile($field['name'], $field['error'], $field['size'], $field['type'], $field['tmp_name'], $overwrite);
public function getMessages() {
return $this->_messages;
protected function checkError($filename, $error) {
switch ($error) {
case 0:
return true;
case 1:
case 2:
$this->_messages[] = "$filename exceeds maximum size: " . $this->getMaxSize();
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case 3:
$this->_messages[] = "Error uploading $filename. Please try again.";
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case 4:
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return false;
default:
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protected function checkSize($filename, $size) {
if ($size == 0) {
return false;
} elseif ($size > $this->_max) {
$this->_messages[] = "$filename exceeds maximum size: " . $this->getMaxSize();
return false;
} else {
return true;
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if (empty($type)) {
return false;
} elseif (!in_array($type, $this->_permitted)) {
$this->_messages[] = "$filename is not a permitted type of file.";
return false;
} else {
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'application/pdf',
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if (!$overwrite) {
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$extension = '';
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$typeOK = $this->checkType($filename, $type);
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if ($success) {
$message = "$filename uploaded successfully";
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} else {
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$org_website = "";
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$org_contel = "";
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I have added the code you kindly forwarded but am getting an error, I am still trying to learn the basics of php and am unsure of what to do next, my php Upload.php now looks like
<?php
class Gp1_Upload{
protected $_uploaded = array();
protected $_destination;
protected $_max = 100000;
protected $_messages = array();
protected $_permitted = array('image/gif',
'image/jpeg',
'image/pjpeg',
'image/png');
protected $_renamed = false;
protected $_filenames = array();
public function __construct($path) {
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$message .= " and renamed $name";
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$this->_messages[] = "Could not upload $filename";
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?>
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