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Jpeg Image Displaying Incorrectly

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When I convert an svg file to a pdf, the jpeg image in the design is displaying with a black, not white background. It is our logo and is colored text on a white background in a jpeg format. I have embedded the image, I believe correctly, using the extensions menu. I have also tried using the same image in a tif format with the same results.

I need to provide the design to the publisher as a pdf.

Please help, I am stuck.

Connie Wayne

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Connie,

there's a bug with transparency making things print black / pdfs print black in the current Inkscape version on Windows, see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.91#Known_issues .

This means:
Make sure your image is 100% opaque (click on it, and check the little box with the 'O' in front of it in the left bottom corner of the window).

If your image might also be a png image with transparency, and not a jpg image, or if you used filter effects, like blur, in your drawing, then try this:
Try underlying the image with a white rectangle.

(btw. you could get results of higher quality if you converted the logo to vector, instead of using a low-quality raster image, depending on the style of the logo - most logos I know can be vectorized well).

If these hints don't help, please upload the file somewhere, so we can take a look (uploads are not supported here, so you might want to use a file hosting service, or your company's server for this).

Kind regards,
 Maren

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