Photoshop CC 2017: Why can you not open a pdf with a transparent background anymore?

Hi Anna,

See the attached screen capture - opened a pdf with CC 2017, added a transparent layer and made it the background (after first adding a layer and making it the background, which made it opaque). If this method won't work for you will you explain why or why not?

Thanks,
Hannah

https://vimeo.com/254598035

Something's a little off here. Almost all my PDFs open with a transparent background, whether I created them in InDesign, or received them from digital resource/tutorial providers. The ones that are only 'sort of' transparent, are PDFs created from web pages where some of the area  around the edges is transparent, but the main article is against a solid white (or colored/black) background.

Obviously, I can't test all the sources, but is it possible that something has changed with the providers' settings when they create the initial PDFs?

Anna, until you resolve the issue on placing a PDF with transparency, would it help to do a global selection based on color range for all the white areas?  Then clear that to transparent and go back to your original workflow?

Howdy Anna,

Could you share one or more of the documents that you're having trouble with, in case it's a setting within the document giving you problems?

Thanks,
David