Suddenly, placed Vector logos have white background

[Juan Cano]

A litle help here; today suddenly, I've placed several logos and icons created in Illustrator, and they are showing a white background instead of being transparent. I thought it was a redraw issue so I quit everything and sitll the issue. Then I restarted and I still see it. Have placed other logos and same issue.

Worst, the PDF is exporting with this white background!!!

• Display is set to high Quality Display

• Fill for placed logo is set to none, both on bounding box and object

• Other logos placed before today don't have the issue.

• Made a new file, placed a different vector, same issue.

What gives??? Any clues?

InDesign 19.3 (yes I know there's a new version but it was giving me the issue of not bveing able to save)

Mac OSX Sonoma 14.5

Appli M1 Max 32GB

[Derek Cross]

Have you tried exporting the images from Illustrator SVGs?

[Juan Cano]

This is happening to any vector I have placed, is not an issue with a single file. The issue seems to be InDesign not reading the files suddenly? 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Just in case - you use Place, not copy&paste from Illustrator? 

Can you share a sample logo? 

[Juan Cano]

Place, although copy/paste works well and never had an issue. Here is one, it's an .ai file. This is a newer (withing the last week) file, but the other ones have been created for years. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

You need to upload it somewhere and post a link - or change extension to TXT before uploading. 

[leo.r]

While the fill is none, is it possible that some effects got applied to the frame accidentally (Window > Effects)?

[Scott Falkner · Accepted solution]

Hold Shift as you click Place in the place dialogue or click on Show Import Options. See if Transparent Background had been turned off. Changes in this dialogue are sticky.

[Juan Cano]

Sonofgun that was it. It must've been clicked at some point and turned transparency off. Duh. Simple fix, easy. Thank you for your help.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Juan Cano

You can / should mark @Scott Falkner's reply as a "Correct Answer".