I would like to add a .jpg, .png or .tiff with a no background. In other words, I want the logo to appear as it was created, without a border or background, to my Layout view.
Also is it possible to have a transparent logo.
[GIS] Pictures with no background or transparent in ArcGIS layout
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Is combining the basemap and the contours in ArcMap and exporting from there not an option? If you haven't tried that, it's where I would start.
Otherwise, I would export your contour lines using the PNG format - on the 'Format' tab of the "Export Map" dialog you can specify a color to be transparent or specify the background to be transparent. One of those should do the trick.
Good luck!
You should use two different STYLE blocks, one for the fill and one for the stroke:
CLASS
STYLE
OUTLINECOLOR r g b #stroke
WIDTH 3
END
STYLE
COLOR r g b #fill
OPACITY 50
END
END
Ordering is important, you'll get different visual results if you swap the order of the STYLE blocks.
Best Answer
Another nice work around I regularly use to insert my company's logo with a transparent background is to add an additional dataframe in layout view. Then bring the transparent background tif or png in as a layer, zoom to layer, go to the symbology tab in layer properties change Stretch to none and Display background value (R,G,B, / 0,0,0) as hollow. Ensure your dataframe background is also set to hollow and has no frame. You should have your image or logo with all of it's transparent background glory, in a usable form in layout view. (Change frame and use the zoom tools to get the image or logo to the size you'd like in your layout) This all sounds a bit cumbersome but once you have done it regularly it is a fairly quick work around to perform.