Transparancy With SVG

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Bernie Swagner
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Transparancy With SVG

Postby Bernie Swagner » Sun Feb 05, 2017 3:49 pm

Hello,
I want to change ALL the white in this image to transparent. I click the white on the top and the bottom and press the 'delete' key and it works. But, when I press the white inside the little loops(like the loop in the 'H' and the start of the 'M') and delete it, it fills with blue and not transparent :x ? But, when I open the PNG in Gimp, all the white shows up as transparent :| . I need ALL the white in the image to be TRANSPARENT. So when I export it to a EPS, I can put it on a shirt I'm designing and have part of it(ALL THE WHITE) be transparent. Will it even keep the transparent parts when exporting to a EPS??

Sincerely,
Slightly Salty, Bernie Swagner
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theozh
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Re: Transparancy With SVG

Postby theozh » Mon Feb 06, 2017 10:48 pm

From you description, I assume that your drawing constists of different filled paths.
1. select the white inner space and while pressing the Shift-key also the blue surrounding
2. then select: Menubar | Path | Difference (or Ctrl + -)
With this you should get a blue path with a "transparent hole" in it.

See also:
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL ... ining.html
Win7/64, Inkscape 0.92.2


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