I have searched the questions and answers here and online for days.

I am not asking how to "remove" the background from an image by tracing the bitmap and using the "difference" command.

I have a finished logo, one color (black) made of an image and text.

In inkscape svg, the logo has no background. (I can move a red box in and out behind it and see through it, for example).

I select the entire group, group it, select "object to path" so the text becomes part of the vector graphic (so I can scale the object without pixelation).
Then I 'Save as EPS', which I have done in the past and the logo always opened with the grid "background" and indeed a transparent background, so if I upload it to, say, make a T-shirt, etc, the image opened is just the black image of the logo.

But now when I do this, the resulting EPS file has the logo and a white box as the background.

I downloaded the latest version of inkscape and have Mac OS X 10.10.2 .

I'd check for any accidental transparency on the fill, stroke or layer.

Failing that, feel free to share the svg file.

Hi, thanks.
There is only one layer. It only has one color. (black).
I am trying to save it as an eps so that it has only the black parts of the image (which is all there is to the image) but it always saves with a white background.
Attached is the svg file.
Thank you to anyone who can help.
LesGoodrich

I saved a copy of the file as an eps and opened it in Inkscape... no white elements, just black.

Where are you seeing the white rectangle? If in Inkscape, maybe try turning off the page border/shadow in the document properties (Shift+Ctrl+D). The border does not print or render, it's for reference.

Within Inkscape, did you paste the logo, at any time? There's a bug with Macs where pasting causes the image to become rasterized. That could account for the white background. (info) Use Duplicate instead.

You can't, because the EPS definition does not support transparency. In your SVG there is transparency, so the opaque bounding box is automatically created.
But PDF does support transparency, so if your final application allows it, try that.
Or change the background of your document to opaque (in document properties), and see if that gets rid of the bounding box(I don't think It will).