Pdf import: making bkg NOT transparent

I'm trying to place pdf pages in Keynote and parts of them are coming up transparent (most were created in Quark or Illustrator). Is there a way in Keynote to set the bkg color to white for the placed graphic? I know we can paste a white block or page behind the graphic either in Keynote or within the program which created it, but I'd rather not add an extra step or two.
Is there a way to have the contents of an image box both display the image AND have a non-transparent colored background?
Thanks! - j
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If they were created in Quark and you exported directly from Quark to PDF, then any transparencies are still not flattened. If you have Acrobat 7.x or newer you can use PDF Optimizer (advanced menu/optimize PDF) and look for an option called "Flatten transparency", Select the values you require (ie: Low end for web, high end for print) and then optimize the file. Once it is done, do NOT save as, simply close and you will have no more transparent backgrounds. You can do the same in Illustrator before the files are imported into Quark or saved as PDF's. The other alternative is to make sure that Quark picture boxes have a fill of 'white' or '0% black', then writing PS instead of PDF and distilling it to create your PDF. Postscript does not support transparancies, so it flattens any it sees while creating the PS file, then the resulting PDF (after distilling) is flattened and you don't need to optimize it.
Good luck.
The above assumes that you have image in the white areas, not simply blank space. Blank space is blank space, you would need to draw white boxes behind everything (What a pain!)

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