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white background appearing on export

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
October 5, 2020
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Hi,

working on some seps for print production (shirts)

Imported a photoshop file with a transparent background into illustrator,

on exporting to a .PS using adobe9.ppd (only way to get the colour seps) illustrator is adding a white back to the area of the photoshop doc (rest is transparent) - dosent matter if its seps or composite - the white back is appearing in the pdfs when imported into photoshop etc.

any ideas?

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Illustrator should be able to separate the file correctly.

Did you link or embed the Photoshop file?

paula97905120Author

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both - same result

Community Expert

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Yes, I did a test after I replied, embedding or linking should not make a difference.

But I cannot replicate the white background when creating separations using the Print dialog and a PostScript file as destination.

Can you share an example Illustrator file?

Community Expert

Community Expert

When printing PostScript files, you can't have transparency.

So this approach won't work.

paula97905120Author

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it did before - which is why im confused.