Export indesign cs5.5 to jpeg w/out background

Hello everybody.
I have a document with a tree (I made it myself on indesign) and a text on the side, and I would like to save both as a jpeg file. I have tried several ways to do this, such as exporting the file and save it as a jpeg file, but it seems that when I do this there's still a white background, so I was wondering if I can somehow save it w/out this background because I need to print this in a paper bag (and the paper bag is black!).
I hope you can help me.

anastaciawlk wrote:
What do you mean with export pdf? I'm sorry, I don't know that much about indesign as you can see.
File > Export > PDF (Print) and pick the Press Quality preset. Your PDF will look like it has a white background if you look at it on screen in Acrobat, but if you Place it in a new ID document on top of a colored background you'll see it has no background at all.
I don't think you are grasping the big issue here, though. To get color to show, you need to be printing against a white piece of paper. Anything else will become a component of the final color and will change it. If the paper is already black, anything you try to print on top of it without essentially painting the print area white first is just going to become darker black with a color cast. You won't get any bright or light colors.
Normally, if you want colors on a black background you print it all on white paper, printing the black background at the same time and leaving a "hole" in the black backgorund everyplace that there should be some other color. For bags, this would mean that the printing is done before the bags are "converted," or folded up and glued.
It's not impossible to print onto black paper, it's just a lot more work, and requires extra preparation.

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