Inkscape - transparent fill, but still occlude paths below it
Inkscape - transparent fill, but still occlude paths below it
Question
I'm doing line art in Inkscape. For the sake of saneness, I need the fill of a path to occlude paths beneath it, so I just fill everything with white.
However, while exporting to a bitmap, I don't want the fills to actually be white - I just want to export the lines, with no fills.
Here's a example:
With fills:
no fills:
what I want:
I know I can replace the white with transparent in other software, but often the results are not perfect (antialiasing results in white fringing).
I also know this can be done with boolean operations on the paths, but it's not really feasible for complex work, and destroys information in the process.
Popular Answer
You cannot have a background color at the same time transparent and not transparent.
In your example, you have two objects layered one on each other, and a possible background, let's say a, b and bg:
When you remove the fill of the top object (b, in the example), you see directly a portion of the other object, and precisely the intersection of a and b:
To get rid of the intersection and see directly the background, the only way is modify the lower object using boolean operations:
