How do you export / save-as a drawing to a transparent .png? When I select "export png" I become a side-bar section that gives me a number of options but none for transparency.
#two Tyler Durden @TylerDurden⚖
Transparency is agile, unless there are objects in the background, then "Hide all except selected" can consign only those objects with transparency.
#three DWFII @DWFII
OK, well information technology seems to piece of work when I generate a drawing from within Inkscape but as I have mentioned, I am trying to catechumen / drift from CorelDraw to Inkscape. Naturally, in society to do that I need to be able to convert hundreds and hundres, years and years, of corel draw (cdr) files to .svg. Unfortunately, that's where the problem arises.
#4 brynn @brynn
So yous're converting to both PNG and SVG?
Are you saying that when you lot convert a CDR to SVG, it's not handling the transparency as you wait? Peradventure some examples would help?
#5 DWFII @DWFII
Not sure that'south exactly correct. I convert .cdr to .svg. And for the near part the cartoon come up in looking only the same every bit in Corel and editable jast as in Corel.
I export (or am trying) the cartoon to .png.
I can't even copy and past and then export to .png.
#6 brynn @brynn
And you're maxim that when y'all export, the transparency does not come through?
Only to confirm, you are using File menu > Export PNG, correct?
All I tin do is inquire to come across an case -- the SVG file, and the PNG. If the SVG has a transparent groundwork, it should be transparent in the PNG. If information technology doesn't, I can't gauge why.
Umm.... Are y'all opening the PNG and seeing no transparency? Or do y'all encounter something like a black groundwork in a file manager or website? File managers, and fifty-fifty some image hosts can't handle transparency well, and don't display such images properly. Even ImageShack used to requite me black groundwork for transparent backgrounds. And my file manages does as well, sometimes.
#vii DWFII @DWFII
No black or other colour backgrounds...but a transpartent png should exist able to exist posted to a coloured background and accept that background show through. All I get is a rectangle of white with the cartoon in the heart
#eight DWFII @DWFII*
Well the svg didn't postal service her like I run across it in Inkscape (attempt again?) merely the png did. If it were truely transparent, it would be the black cartoon on the greyness background.
#nine Tyler Durden @TylerDurden⚖*
Here'south the Fig36-3.png imported back into Inkscape over a filled rectangle. Transparency is working, it seems.
Have a nice day.
TD
#ten DWFII @DWFII
Well, if I postal service it to a forum with a coloured groundwork the drawing shows up on a white rectangle.
If I create a cartoon in Inkscape (as outlined above with a star) and post it to that self same forum the star is just a star and the coloured forum background shows through. Plus when yous import it back into inkscape it comes back in as an .svg file--a format which hardly whatever forum (except peradventure Inkscape) will recognize.
Here's a screen capture of the same Fig36-iii imported dorsum into Inkscape, exported to a...presumably ...transparent .png and posted tyo a forum.
#11 brynn @brynn*
The SVG appears to take a transparent groundwork to me as well. I've also exported information technology, and take a transparent background.
We have no idea how the other forum handles attachments. If y'all'd like a lesson about how crazy unlike forums tin can handle attachments, y'all can ask how this forum handles them (omg, it's complicated!). So it'south entirely possible that forum does not allow transparency, for all we know. Peradventure information technology's adding the opaque background?
Here's the PNG I exported from your SVG. You can see that it's transparent, because when you mouse over, it gets that icky orange highlight. If information technology had a white background, you would not see that highlight.
Also, if you click to open it in the lightbox/carousel, you lot can hardly see information technology because of the blackness background of the lightbox/carousel. It's transparent!
#12 Tyler Durden @TylerDurden⚖*
DWFII seems to be exporting using the Cairo processs, which does non assign the blastoff to the white background..(Save a copy as PNG wil not produce transparency.)
It is essential to use the Export PNG panel Consign push to get the transparency.
#13 DWFII @DWFII*
First, the forum I was posting to is one that I administer so I know it supports transparent pngs.
2d...Tyler...I used the exact same method / sidebar to create the png I attached in mail service #10. I don't know what the Cairo method is but i used the Inkscape method.
FWIW, I downloaded the png that Brynn attached in #11 and posted it to the forum I have been using to test the proces. Here's the result:
I capeesh the assistance, I really practise, simply information technology's not working for me. Try opening Brynn'southward png (again post #11) by doing "open up file" in a browser. Commencement image is the forum, 2nd is in Firefox using ctrl+o (open up file)
#14 DWFII @DWFII
Well, first I desire to thank you lot both --Tyler, Brynn--for the assist and time you lot devoted to this problem.
The problem is at present solved and I wanted to permit you lot know...equally well as express my appreciation.
Turns out the problem was with an extension--Lightbox--that I added to my Forum software...not Inkscape, non CorelDraw, not Windows ten, non the png exportation or conversion filter. In one case I edited a .css file, the glitch went away.
How do you export / save-as a drawing to a transparent .png? When I select "export png" I become a side-bar section that gives me a number of options but none for transparency.
Transparency is agile, unless there are objects in the background, then "Hide all except selected" can consign only those objects with transparency.
OK, well information technology seems to piece of work when I generate a drawing from within Inkscape but as I have mentioned, I am trying to catechumen / drift from CorelDraw to Inkscape. Naturally, in society to do that I need to be able to convert hundreds and hundres, years and years, of corel draw (cdr) files to .svg. Unfortunately, that's where the problem arises.
So yous're converting to both PNG and SVG?
Are you saying that when you lot convert a CDR to SVG, it's not handling the transparency as you wait? Peradventure some examples would help?
Not sure that'south exactly correct. I convert .cdr to .svg. And for the near part the cartoon come up in looking only the same every bit in Corel and editable jast as in Corel.
I export (or am trying) the cartoon to .png.
I can't even copy and past and then export to .png.
And you're maxim that when y'all export, the transparency does not come through?
Only to confirm, you are using File menu > Export PNG, correct?
All I tin do is inquire to come across an case -- the SVG file, and the PNG. If the SVG has a transparent groundwork, it should be transparent in the PNG. If information technology doesn't, I can't gauge why.
Umm.... Are y'all opening the PNG and seeing no transparency? Or do y'all encounter something like a black groundwork in a file manager or website? File managers, and fifty-fifty some image hosts can't handle transparency well, and don't display such images properly. Even ImageShack used to requite me black groundwork for transparent backgrounds. And my file manages does as well, sometimes.
No black or other colour backgrounds...but a transpartent png should exist able to exist posted to a coloured background and accept that background show through. All I get is a rectangle of white with the cartoon in the heart
Well the svg didn't postal service her like I run across it in Inkscape (attempt again?) merely the png did. If it were truely transparent, it would be the black cartoon on the greyness background.
Here'south the Fig36-3.png imported back into Inkscape over a filled rectangle. Transparency is working, it seems.
Have a nice day.
TD
Well, if I postal service it to a forum with a coloured groundwork the drawing shows up on a white rectangle.
If I create a cartoon in Inkscape (as outlined above with a star) and post it to that self same forum the star is just a star and the coloured forum background shows through. Plus when yous import it back into inkscape it comes back in as an .svg file--a format which hardly whatever forum (except peradventure Inkscape) will recognize.
Here's a screen capture of the same Fig36-iii imported dorsum into Inkscape, exported to a...presumably ...transparent .png and posted tyo a forum.
The SVG appears to take a transparent groundwork to me as well. I've also exported information technology, and take a transparent background.
We have no idea how the other forum handles attachments. If y'all'd like a lesson about how crazy unlike forums tin can handle attachments, y'all can ask how this forum handles them (omg, it's complicated!). So it'south entirely possible that forum does not allow transparency, for all we know. Peradventure information technology's adding the opaque background?
Here's the PNG I exported from your SVG. You can see that it's transparent, because when you mouse over, it gets that icky orange highlight. If information technology had a white background, you would not see that highlight.
Also, if you click to open it in the lightbox/carousel, you lot can hardly see information technology because of the blackness background of the lightbox/carousel. It's transparent!
DWFII seems to be exporting using the Cairo processs, which does non assign the blastoff to the white background..(Save a copy as PNG wil not produce transparency.)
It is essential to use the Export PNG panel Consign push to get the transparency.
First, the forum I was posting to is one that I administer so I know it supports transparent pngs.
2d...Tyler...I used the exact same method / sidebar to create the png I attached in mail service #10. I don't know what the Cairo method is but i used the Inkscape method.
FWIW, I downloaded the png that Brynn attached in #11 and posted it to the forum I have been using to test the proces. Here's the result:
I capeesh the assistance, I really practise, simply information technology's not working for me. Try opening Brynn'southward png (again post #11) by doing "open up file" in a browser. Commencement image is the forum, 2nd is in Firefox using ctrl+o (open up file)
Well, first I desire to thank you lot both --Tyler, Brynn--for the assist and time you lot devoted to this problem.
The problem is at present solved and I wanted to permit you lot know...equally well as express my appreciation.
Turns out the problem was with an extension--Lightbox--that I added to my Forum software...not Inkscape, non CorelDraw, not Windows ten, non the png exportation or conversion filter. In one case I edited a .css file, the glitch went away.
Capeesh it.