Wordle Background is Black

Hi Brandy,

How are you inserting the transparent Wordle image? Is the background black when viewed in Presenter?

The default color of Presenter's background is black... any chance one of the bg files was deleted from \data\swf?

Hi David,

I'm inserting it into PowerPoint by Insert >> Picture.  Yes the background for the image is black when viewed in Presenter.  I didn't do anything with the \data\swf files.

Here's what it looks like in PowerPoint:

Here's what it looks like when I publish it to Presenter:

Can you attach the Worlde image? 

Looks like you're using a custom skin... just curious if you've tried publishing using one of the default players?  Shouldn't make any difference, but just going through the easy troubleshooting ideas

I think it is the image, have you tried saving it out as a png and reinserting?

Phil

Here's the image.  I tried publishing it using the default player and still have the same issue.

What's strange is that image looks black (non-transparent) in the browser.

Can you share how you're creating your image? After you create your word cloud in Wordle, how are you getting the transparency from Wordle? And from Wordle, are you taking the image straight into PowerPoint or are you first opening it in a graphics app?

Somehow, somewhere, your transparency is getting lost and the images is reverting to solid bg... just gotta figure out where that's occurring. 

I create the Wordle.  Then I do a screen capture with Snagit and save it as a png.  Then I insert the png into PowerPoint.  Once the image is inserted into PowerPoint, I use the Format >> Recolor >> Set Transparent Color and remove the black background.

Cool. Can you try this:

1. After you Set Transparent color, do a Save as Picture... and save as a .png file.
2. Delete the current image on your slide
3. Insert the new .png you just saved with transparency.

That seems to fix everything.

That worked!  Thanks for all of your help!

Hey glad to hear that

Just wanted to say I ran into this same issue today and this conversation saved me a big headache.  Thanks!

Cool and thanks for letting us know Sarah. Transparency isn't the most intuitive part of saving and working with images.