[Scribus] (Why is there a) Light halftone background in tiff image?

[Leonard Sitongia]

I should have worded the Subject better.  I'm asking why this background 
is there, when I expect that it should not be there.

On 3/1/2006 Leonard Sitongia wrote:
> I've added it to a page in Scribus.  When I print the page out 
> (exported 
> to PDF), the masthead, this TIFF image, comes out with a very faint 
> grey 
> background, which looks like halftone, with a uniform pattern of 
> black 
> dots in the background, creating the faint grey.