Cant export SVG with transparent background (keeps adding white one)

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
February 19, 2025
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Hi I have a logo I want to export with a transparent background in SVG format. However it keeps adding a white background, eventhough the illustrator file has a transparent one. It works perfectly when I export the file as PNG.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong. I have attached the file.

Logo_cant_export_with_transparent_background-.svg

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Monika Gause

Community Expert

In which app are you viewing the file so that you know it has that background?

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paul_6509Author

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I upload it to google drive and open it there. Or in preview on the macbook. Or inscape etc. Its across the board.

The problem is that if I export the logo with white lettering you cant see the logo anymore in the different apps, only in illustrator, which is not good.

Doug A Roberts

Community Expert

There is no background in the SVG file. How are you determining that it has a white background? This is your file in Illustrator with the transparency grid showing:

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