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White fill colour rendering as opaque on export

Asked by Ed Hancox

Hello,

I am trying to create a graphic to import into Final Cut Pro 6 - it is handwritten text that I've scanned in, imported to Inkscape and traced. I would like it to appear as white fill with a thin black border. However, when I export a bitmap, the white fill color comes out as opaque - both when I open it in other software (e.g. Paintbrush, viewer) and when I import into FCP6. I have Fill/Stroke Paint/Stroke Style all set at 100% opacity.

Any help very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Ed Hancox

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Check the Alpha ('A') value of the fill color: it needs to be 255 for a
fully opaque fill color, in addition to the global opacity value at the
bottom of 'Fill & Stroke' (which affects fill and stroke equally).

If that doesn't help either - maybe you could upload the file somewhere
(e.g. using a service like Dropbox, or a free image hosting service like
e.g. <http://imgh.us> which accepts and serves SVG files), and share the
link here (launchpad's 'Answers' section unfortunately doesn't allow
attachments), to allow further investigation?

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Best su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#2

> I would like it to appear as white fill with a thin black border
> (…) the white fill color comes out as opaque

Just to clarify your question: do you want the fill to be opaque or
transparent?

Opaque is the opposite of transparent: if the fill renders opaque in an
image viewer (i.e. solid white), the result is as expected. If the fill
is actually "omitted" (rendered transparent), then you likely use a
fill transparency (Alpha) of '0' (zero) in the SVG file, and need to
adjust it accordingly.

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Ed Hancox (ed-hancox) said : 		#3

Whoops, yes of course I meant transparent!

That solved the problem - I had the RGB/A values set as 0/0/0/0 when of course I needed 255/255/255/255.

As a humble video editor, I'm new to all this graphics business, please forgive my ignorance...

Many thanks for your prompt and concise reply.

Ed