kconkling Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 I need to turn this in....another client wants it in eps. So, I exported it as an eps and clicked no background. It has a background. Any suggestions? Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Go to Document Setup... and on the Colour Tab tick the box that sets Transparent background and click OK Export to eps now. kconkling 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Thank you very much!!! Appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 Hi Firstdefence! I tried that just now and it did make the document transparent, so I exported it as eps. When I went to reopen it, its back to a white background Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 2 hours ago, kconkling said: I tried that just now and it did make the document transparent, so I exported it as eps. When I went to reopen it, its back to a white background Did you examine it in another app, or only in Designer? kconkling 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 22, 2019 Author Share Posted April 22, 2019 The only other app I have I have is inkscape and it doesn't take eps. I don't have AI. Any other suggestions? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 On Win you can try with the free version of Microsoft Expression Design 4, or with LibreOffice Draw etc. - Another always good take for EPS on Win are the Ghostscript Interpreter and Ghostview as a viewer. kconkling 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Try this. Create a document in Affinity Designer Add rectangle and colour it to something other than white, maybe a nice blue #D2EBEB Now File > Place... the eps file in that document. Can you see the blue? If you can, congratulations you have an eps with a transparent background. kconkling 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Inkscape can open EPS, you generally have to ungroup the eps after opening or import, sometimes you have to ungroup twice or more to get the individual components. kconkling 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Sequoia 15.0 (24A335), iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 i downloaded free version of IA...here is what it looks like. I know nothing about it so is this transparent? I don't know what that white rectangle is behind and couldn't get rid of it, but didn't try that hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 So I did it? I made it EPS? I can see the blue rectange!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Well in AD and in most other graphics apps that gray checkerboard style background pattern already stays for, or indicates you the transparency here. kconkling 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kconkling Posted April 23, 2019 Author Share Posted April 23, 2019 nevermind...if I place a file it will show transparency so if I open a file, it won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Did you used a document with a transparent background when you created your web buttons and menus? - You can set that up when you create an AD document under the color tab on the new document panel. Further you can try to make a copy of your file, then open that file copy and apply/change the document background to transparency on the document settings panel (again see the checkbox under the color tab on that one). Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 transparent-background.mp4 As you can see, in case you created the document with a solid color background (a white one etc.) you can also change the document background afterwards then to be instead transparent for the document and then resave as EPS. Note further that not all third party viewers etc. do always show up a transparent backgrounds, meaning here even a drawing might does have transparency, some tools don't show it that way up since they (the third party tool to preview) always may have some solid background on which they displays images and drawings. So it's sometimes also tool dependent if they can show and indicate you the transparency or not here. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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