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Transparency from any file format becomes solid black color background after exporting to .JPG

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June 18, 2020
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Hi, I discovered, that in latest release of Bridge (10.1.163, from June 17th 2020) the transparency from any file type (I tried SVG, PNG and PSD) becomes solid black background after exporting to .JPG file.

As .SVG files with assigned keywords in Bridge cannot be searched from macOS via Spotlight I need to convert them to any file format that is searchable (for assigned keywords) from macOS via Spotlight. I’m finding it as a serious problem.

Is it a common problem or is it specific for my Mac (iMac 27, late 2015 with macOS Mojave, 10.14.6)?

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gary_sc

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Hi Ivan,

Your question got me going because it SHOULD find such keywords. I did find the solution for you. In the search field in Bridge there is a dropdown menu. Select Bridge searches as shown below. Now, in a quick test I tried this in a folder and there was a subfolder as well and it found my test items inclusive of the subfolder items. Please verify that this works for you.

Let me know either way.

And yes, Lumigraphic is correct, JPG images do not have transparency, so that's a path you do not want to follow.

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Ivan BerkaAuthor

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Hi Garry, thanks for trying to help me.

Unfortunately, I probably didn't make myself clear: I have an SVG file which I assigned few appropriate keywords via Bridge (specifically icon, lineart, vegetable). What I’d like to is to search for this file comfortably from withing Finder’s Spotlight (without ever launching the Bridge). I found out that Finder isn’t able to find assigned keywords in SVGs but it can find them in JPGs. So I wanted to make little low resolution versions of these in JPGs just to have a little searchable (!) „brothers“ of the SVGs. Once I locate these JPGs it’s a question of seconds to find SVGs as they sit right beside their bitmap counterparts. You know, I was aiming to be able to search for my SVGs directly from Finder as I want to narrow my search using more keywords at once (I was looking for “lineart icon vegetable” which is not that easy, and not that fast, in Bridge).

Anyway, thank you for pointing out an important search feature of the Bridge that I will certainly use.

Concerning flattening transparency of SVGs to black in bitmaps it’s another issue (I’m not bothered with now). I’m aware that JPGs do not support transparency (that’s not the problem), but the fact that replacement of the originally transparent area isn’t white but black is inacceptable.

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Ivan BerkaAuthor

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Hi Ivan,

What are the steps you are doing to create the jpg version. Please go through the process you take

Hi Garry,

here’s the process I take:

open .svg file in Bridge
drag and drop icon of .svg file onto one of export sets (in Export tab) I created (the one that instructs Bridge to: export given file(s) to JPEG; save it in the lowest quality; keep all metadata)
click “Start export” button (bellow list of custom created export sets)
the file gets exported to .jpg (but the portions of file that has been transparent become black)

Enclosed please find thumbnails of both versions of the file.

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Lumigraphics

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JPEG does not support transparency. I'd try flattening those files and see if that fixes it.

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Ivan BerkaAuthor

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Hi Lumigraphics,

thanks for your advice. As I wrote to Gary, loosing the transparency is not a problem for me. Neither the fact, that original file’s transparency is replaced – I cannot imagine why – by black instead of logical white color. Sorry for not expressing myself clearly immediately.

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