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Each image i export to png has an ugly white backgroung, the whole A4 background. The opacity is set to 0 for transparency but the background still shows on anything i use it whose background is not white.

Asked by Dexter Bululu

All I want is to save my images without the white space (the background). Saving a logo in png format which is surrounded by a large white space is wasted effort because it cannot look good on anything whose background is not white. The document opacity thing is set to be transparent but on a websute the png still shows it's ugly white space, so it's vitually unusable. How do I get rid of the whole white background so that ONLY the DRAWING gets exported? This really makes Inkscape suck since I cannot get drawings unattached to their background!

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Use 'File > Export PNG…' instead of 'Save as… Cairo PNG (*.png)'

<http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/File-Export.html#File-Export-PNG>

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#2

sorry, minor typo:

Use 'File > Export Bitmap…' instead of 'Save as… Cairo PNG (*.png)'

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John Wiley (john-wiley) said : 		#3

Any further info on this bug? Is there a special way you're supposed to hold your mouth while doing the "Export Bitmap" thing, because it clearly doesn't work. EVERY image comes out with a white, non-transparent background.

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John Wiley (john-wiley) said : 		#4

Even if you select a single element from the svg and try to export it, Inkscape slaps a white background behind the element first, then exports it. Too bad. Seems like a versatile little program. This one bug makes it entirely unuseable.

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#5

1) Which application do you use to view/check the background color of the exported bitmap(s)?
2) Please verify the background color setting of the current SVG document (i.e. the one you are exporting to bitmap) in 'File > Document Properties > Page': did you at some point intentionally change it from fully transparent white (A = 0) to solid white (A = 255)? Or maybe you are using a file created by someone else who changed those properties?

All SVG files originally created in Inkscape (based on the default template or one of the other templates listed in 'File > New…') do default to a fully transparent white background, and this background color setting is respected when exporting a bitmap.

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