Is there any way to make the backround of a draw page transparent and export to SVG
Paul
(testing on LO 3.5.4.2 on Ubuntu 12.04.1)
Hi @PaulValley,
In my copy of LibreOffice Draw, it seems that the background defaults to transparent. I just opened up LO Draw and added a rectangle with rounded corners to the middle of the page. I then added some text “Hotdog Cart”, and then exported the file as an SVG.
I opened the file with Inkscape, and the file seems to have a transparent background. If you don’t have Inkscape, you can test the file in your browser.
Here’s a snippet of (non-validating) HTML that should provide an adequate test of transparency:
<html>
<body bgcolor="purple">
<p>Test an SVG file to see if it has a transparent background.
</p>
<img src="your-svg-file-goes-here.svg" />
</body>
</html>
To test your own SVG image for transparency:
- Toss the above code into a text file named “svg.html”,
- put your svg file alongside it, in the same directory, and
- open the svg.html file in a webbrowser.
If successful, you should see an absolutely hideous webpage with
- a dark purple background,
- black text lurking in the upper-left corner (superb contrast with the purple, natch :P), and
- your SVG image floating in the center.