Colour to transparent gradient in Illustrator CS2

I am creating a logo in Illustrator CS2 and i want to put a reflection
underneath, that has a gradient fading to transparent. It can be done but the logo needs to be used in other programs such as InDesign. When placed into InDesign the transparency of the gradient is no longer there, it changes to white.
Is there any way to do this?
thanks Tim

Try using a transparency mask: http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/Illustrator/13.0/help.html?content=WS2D8B6C1E-A2C8-4902-8 9C8-E5D04A6B314B.html

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Hi,I spent weeks trying to sort it out. Apparently it's unavoidable. I read somewhere that the white lines wouldn't appear when printed but i saved one of the images as a jpg an the lines were clearly visible.
Its because when the transparency in the image goes through the flattening process to enable printing it breaks the image into atomic regions and the white lines are the gaps in between.
People seem to think it's completely normal and acceptable but i don't . I think it's a load of old rubbish.
The way round it is to use stuff that doesn't use transparency like the gradient mesh and all that.
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/no flame for Bert Philippus/
Where O' Where is this information in the FM? ;-)
/no flame, no blame/
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