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Manjinder70
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April 18, 2018
Question

My EPS vector file does not export transparency to PNG file

  • April 18, 2018
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Hi,

I am a programmer and not a graphic artist. I am writing a game and need transparent PNG sprites. My plan is to get most of my graphics from Shutterstock.

I downloaded an image of alphabet characters on a transparent background. It is an EPS file.

I had the trial version of Illustrator CC and I opened up the EPS file which loaded successfully (apart from a message about a plug-in called Phantasm.aip is needed).

The image kind of has a black chequered background. My assumption was that the background is transparent.

All I did next was used the export to PNG option. I set the option for transparency and output as 600 DPI.

I got a excellent quality PNG image with an alpha-channel, but all the alpha pixels are 255 completely opaque!

Anyone know what's going on?

Thanks,

M.

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    Manjinder70Author
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    May 4, 2018

    Thanks to Doug, Ton and Monika for replying.

    I managed to hide the backgrounds. They were sub-layers. I turned on Show Transparency Grid to help me (as Ton mentioned) with help from Adobe.

    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 4, 2018

    Good to hear you've got is solved.

    Ton Frederiks
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    Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 18, 2018

    Try to get rid of the black checkered background.

    See if it is on a layer i Illustrator.

    Checkered backgrounds in Photoshop indicate transparency.

    If you create a new Illustrator file and choose View > Show Transparency Grid you will see that checkered grid.

    Your EPS probably fakes that grid.

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    Manjinder70Author
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    April 20, 2018

    Thanks, I'm convinced the EPS has a rasterized image. It only says Layer 1 on the Layers tab. I would expect a transparent background to be a layer of it's own which you can remove.

    Doug A Roberts
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    Doug A RobertsCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 20, 2018

    can you show a screenshot of the object selected and the layers panel? expand the layer to show its contents.

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