[Why not transparent??] White backgrounds in EPS exports with FX applied

[mrapino]

I have been doing a lot of testing in Designer today because I ran into a major issue in my opinion. I have applied a few FX to my vector layers, and although I realize that these FX are raster being applied to vector, I don't understand why an EPS has a bunch of white backgrounds on everything that an FX effect is applied to. I want my EPS files to be fully transparent like they should be. Is the only way to achieve this to delete all of the FX?

 

Please advise.

[NathanC]

Hi @mrapino,

From what I'm aware this is a limitation of the .EPS file format as it doesn't natively support transparency, this is the same result if I export an .EPS file out of Illustrator and import into Designer which has effects applied to vector, the Effects layers are rasterised with a white background on the rasterised layer. The same would occur if I export a file containing a transparent image to .EPS, when importing the .EPS would have a white background.

I found a somewhat similar discussion surrounding EPS transparency on the adobe forums here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/eps-files-wont-save-as-a-transparency/m-p/3710450