#Inkscape logo transparent background how to#
#Inkscape logo transparent background mac os x#

#Inkscape logo transparent background how to#

Before proceeding, it should be noted that this lesson will teach you how to remove a white background from a rasterized image. Then, use the tracing to create a clipping path with your image. In.svg MVG 130x130 130x130+0+0 16-bit sRGB 552B 0.000u 0:00.000 To remove a white background with Inkscape, create a vector tracing of your image using the Trace Bitmap feature. Here is my verbose output: ➜ /tmp convert -background transparent -verbose in.svg out2.png This will show you if + which exernal 'delegate' software ImageMagick employes for the SVG processing: convert -verbose -background none in.svg out.png You could run the commands with an additional -verbose parameter. My version info (on OS X 10.10.1): Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-8 Q16 x86_64 ĭelegates: bzlib freetype jng jpeg ltdl lzma png xml zlib You are doing it correctly, I just tried the two commands that you provided ( convert -background none in.svg out.png and convert -background transparent in.svg) and they both produce a nice PNG with transparent background for me. Inkscape version is Inkscape 0.48.2 r9819 $ convert -verbose -background transparent wiki-logo.svg wiki-logo-trans.png Looks like it's using inkscape, which I've pretty much confirmed (by actually using inkscape directly myself) does not successfully render a transparent background. Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-0 Q16 x86_64 Ĭopyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLCĭelegates: bzlib djvu fftw fontconfig freetype gslib jng jpeg lcms ltdl lzma png ps tiff webp x xml zlibĪny ideas on what I'm not doing correct (or at all)?Īdding this bit of info from Timo's suggestion: verbose output to see where ImageMagick is delegating the conversion.

#Inkscape logo transparent background mac os x#

Here's the version output for ImageMagick convert (running on Mac OS X 10.7.3): $ convert -version I've already tried some of the suggestions noted here (both convert -background none in.svg out.png and convert -background transparent in.svg out.png) but no luck. I'm using ImageMagick via command line to convert a simple SVG to PNG with a transparent background, but for some reason it's not working.