Help please! I urgently need to send some of my files with cutting lines to my printing company as PDF but when I save as it turns the image and background all black. I tried to look up past posts on this but still struggling!!!

Hi.

Just guessing.

Do you happen to use filters in that file? Like blurring for example.

Are all transparencies at 100%
-object transparency, alpha values in fills and strokes, in gradient steps, and, use no masking?

Would check these first.

Could be also colour profile related, like some embedded jpegs and such.

Thanks for responding. The file is fine when i save as png though, do you still think its to do with settings?

I think it has to do with the embedded raster image's colour profile.

Check these similar topics:


SVG to PDF images not showing correct & background color iss

Saving project as PDF - negative colors

Hello
Wait:
- If I understand well, your printing company also provides the service of cutting?
- In order to do that cutting, It requires you to convert to PDF with a raster image (JPG) embedded in the document?

- I just wonder if it won't be better to trace (or auto trace) the image and then convert to PDF just with a vector graphic embedded. I mean... the company doesn't support other formats?

- The other solution, is to convert the JPG colour profile, and then convert to PDF, as It is explained in the links provided by Lazur

Anyway, If you solve it, please share your results

Greetings

Hi - are you using the Windows 64 bit version of Inkscape? If so, this could be a known problem, see release notes:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php ... own_issues

The solution to this specific bug is to create a white, fully opaque rectangle the size of your page and put it below your drawing.

Or to use the 32bit version.
Or to export to png instead.
Or to remove all transparencies from the drawing (including blur filters and other filters that may cause partially transparent objects).

Moini wrote:Hi - are you using the Windows 64 bit version of Inkscape? If so, this is a known problem, see release notes:

AFAIR (from the feedback of affected users), that known issue only affects printing, and printing to PDF via custom printer driver, but not saving a copy as PDF via 'File > Save a Copy...'.

Moini wrote:The solution to this specific bug is to create a white, fully opaque rectangle the size of your page and put it below your drawing.

Based just on the topic («JPG to PDF image is all black») I'm somewhat doubtful that it has to do with transparency (JPEG images don't have transparency - even if (part of) the document background appears black in the generated (printed) PDF file, this should not affect the content of the JPEG image itself). But maybe I'm misreading the topic line, and the question is more about vector drawings ("cutting lines") created by (manually) tracing over imported JPEG images (?).

Without access to example file(s) (original raster graphics artwork, the Inkscape SVG file, and the generated PDF), and without knowing details about how the PDF files are produced on which OS/platform (e.g. using Inkscape's built-in PDF export, or printed via a custom printer driver (as many Inkscape users on Windows seem to prefer)) - my first guess would also have been CMYK JPEGs with embedded color profiles, as discussed (without real solution) in earlier topics. But it's just that - a guess.

Updated to 'could be'