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Help Using Inkscape => Inkscape Beginners' Questions => Topic started by: Terada on March 21, 2017, 05:15:12 AM

Title: Unable to export png with transparent background
Post by: Terada on March 21, 2017, 05:15:12 AM

Hi Friends

I've been trying to export the attached svg-file as a png with transparent background.
Done everything that should be done: Set background transparancy in document properties and exported to png with Ctrl + Shift + E, but still the .png has a white background.
The .svg is an output file from SolidWorks Composer.

I am using Inkscape 0.91 on a 64-bit Windows10 PC.

Any advice?

Title: Re: Unable to export png with transparent background
Post by: brynn on March 21, 2017, 05:52:27 AM

Welcome to the forum!

You have a white square the same size as your page behind the drawing.  It's hard to notice because it's white, and because it's grouped within several nested groups.

If you hold the Ctrl key, while you click on the white area (inside the page border), that will select the white square, and then you can delete it.  After that, the export should work fine.

Possibly the white square came from the other program, and you didn't realize it.

Title: Re: Unable to export png with transparent background
Post by: Terada on March 21, 2017, 06:09:47 AM

Dear Brynn

Thank you so much for a very quick and useful reply  :-)

Title: Re: Unable to export png with transparent background
Post by: brynn on March 21, 2017, 11:20:38 AM

 :bow1:  You're welcome!