I've been using Inkscape for several years now (though, I'm certainly no expert! Everything I know is "self taught" - mostly discovered by accident. LOL). I got a new laptop last weekend & installed Inkscape 1.1. When I exported a PNG, it exported it with a white background, even though it wasn't designed with one. So, I followed a YouTube video for making the background transparent. Now, one of the objects in my design is transparent, though it should be white. Colors show just fine, but white, or any of the lighter shades of any color all show transparent, or a partially transparent.
The Fill & Stroke is at 100% opacity. The fill color for my object is selected, and is set to "white" (RGBA: ffffffff). The alpha channel slider is all the way to 100. Blend Mode: Normal Document properties: Background is "checkerboard background", and the background color is white, but the alpha channel slider is on 0. (this is how the YouTube video said to get a transparent background for PNG exports).
The files I uploaded are (1.) the fill of the S is set to WHITE, but it's transparent. (2.) the fill of the S is set to a light pink, but you can see that the S looks more purple, because the pink color is partially transparent, and also shows the teal background, making it look purple. (3.) the fill of the S is set to royal blue, which comes in nice & with full color.
I have a white toner printer, so yep - CMYK is fine. Usually I'm in RGB, but either one is fine. No white is selected because if I colored it white, it'd be completely transparent, hence the black stroke on the S. I only added the black stroke to it because otherwise it'd be completely invisible. It looks like the photos uploaded backwards...
So they should be... (1.) the fill of the S is set to royal blue, which comes in nicely & with full color. (2.) the fill of the S is set to a light pink, but you can see that the S looks more purple, because the pink color is partially transparent, and also shows the teal background, making it look purple. (3.) the fill of the S is set to WHITE, but it's transparent.. all that can be seen is the black stroke that I added so I didn't "lose" my invisible image.
I tried searching Google, but everything that comes up is "how to make a white background transparent"... "save with transparent background"... And when I searched the forum, I got "zero topics found" when searching "transparent" or "white is transparent" (which, if I'm being honest, really surprised me! Zero topics about transparency??)
But its a fresh install.. I hadn't changed any of the settings until I realized my PNG exports all had white backgrounds. That's when I tried making the background transparent. Unfortunately, I don't know if this weird transparent issue was happening before I did that or not. Incidentally, I added some random letters to the page, colored them white, and they turned white. **sigh** What the heck??
Could be a wrong bit depth set in Export? Open Export subwindow, expand the Advanced options and check if a RGBA profile is set. If not, the A channel is not properly exported.
Definitely weird. I'd love to see the file that exhibits this strange behaviour. Maybe there's a blend mode on a group that includes the B that won't become white?
Beginners' Questions White object is transparent.. ??
Inkscape.org
I've been using Inkscape for several years now (though, I'm certainly no expert! Everything I know is "self taught" - mostly discovered by accident. LOL). I got a new laptop last weekend & installed Inkscape 1.1. When I exported a PNG, it exported it with a white background, even though it wasn't designed with one. So, I followed a YouTube video for making the background transparent. Now, one of the objects in my design is transparent, though it should be white. Colors show just fine, but white, or any of the lighter shades of any color all show transparent, or a partially transparent.
The Fill & Stroke is at 100% opacity.
The fill color for my object is selected, and is set to "white" (RGBA: ffffffff).
The alpha channel slider is all the way to 100.
Blend Mode: Normal
Document properties: Background is "checkerboard background", and the background color is white, but the alpha channel slider is on 0. (this is how the YouTube video said to get a transparent background for PNG exports).
The files I uploaded are (1.) the fill of the S is set to WHITE, but it's transparent. (2.) the fill of the S is set to a light pink, but you can see that the S looks more purple, because the pink color is partially transparent, and also shows the teal background, making it look purple. (3.) the fill of the S is set to royal blue, which comes in nice & with full color.
What am I missing?? Or where did I go wrong??
Thanks...
Cathy
First of all and before we proceed: are you sure you want work in CMYK mode? Even in the first screenshot no white color is selected.
I have a white toner printer, so yep - CMYK is fine. Usually I'm in RGB, but either one is fine. No white is selected because if I colored it white, it'd be completely transparent, hence the black stroke on the S. I only added the black stroke to it because otherwise it'd be completely invisible. It looks like the photos uploaded backwards...
So they should be... (1.) the fill of the S is set to royal blue, which comes in nicely & with full color. (2.) the fill of the S is set to a light pink, but you can see that the S looks more purple, because the pink color is partially transparent, and also shows the teal background, making it look purple. (3.) the fill of the S is set to WHITE, but it's transparent.. all that can be seen is the black stroke that I added so I didn't "lose" my invisible image.
I tried searching Google, but everything that comes up is "how to make a white background transparent"... "save with transparent background"... And when I searched the forum, I got "zero topics found" when searching "transparent" or "white is transparent" (which, if I'm being honest, really surprised me! Zero topics about transparency??)
I'd try resetting the preferences. There is now a button in the System section of the Preferences dialog.
Some preference settings that were retained from earlier versions may be incompatible with 1.1.
But its a fresh install.. I hadn't changed any of the settings until I realized my PNG exports all had white backgrounds. That's when I tried making the background transparent. Unfortunately, I don't know if this weird transparent issue was happening before I did that or not. Incidentally, I added some random letters to the page, colored them white, and they turned white. **sigh** What the heck??
Go Document Properties:
Yeah - what the heck? Colored white objects turns white. Shouldn´t?
Here´s a simple file after your advise in 4 color mode though your printer has 5; not sure how this is defined via CMYK.
Text and circle are CMYK=0, A=100, page background is 100% transparent
The preferences are retained in the user profile, even when a new install is performed.
The user profile also retains patterns, templates, symbols, etc.
Could be a wrong bit depth set in Export? Open Export subwindow, expand the Advanced options and check if a RGBA profile is set. If not, the A channel is not properly exported.
Definitely weird. I'd love to see the file that exhibits this strange behaviour. Maybe there's a blend mode on a group that includes the B that won't become white?
This is a file that contains both the crazy acting piece (right) as well as an example of what it SHOULD look like (left)