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: Adobe Illustrator: A transparent background for an character of a file pdf First question: I'm starting to use Adobe Illustrator recently. I would like to know what are the commands to convert

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First question: I'm starting to use Adobe Illustrator recently. I would like to know what are the commands to convert the white background of a pdf into one that is transparent background.

Second question: I use, now, Adobe Illustrator CC, relase 2015, tryout. Thanks an help of an user and various comments I have to find the “trasparent grid”, of my file .pdf, in the position of the figure shown here:



Here there is the path of the “trasparent grid”:


Visualizza>Mostra griglia di trasparenza


instead of


View>show>trasparent grid


Probabily the user has a different version of mine. Now I have another problem. How I do to remove the withe background and to have only the black character “P”?



I do not like the white background and I would remove it. Could someone explain to me step by step what I must do to make the background transparent and just leave the character?
Thanks.

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@Harper654

That does not appear to be a character, as selected text will show a baseline in Illustrator. It looks like it might be a raster image (or perhaps a tracing) given the lack of paths in the selection, but hard to be sure.

Here's what the 3 items look like selected on the artboard:



A better way to see what type of item you're working with is in the Layers Palette:



If it is an image, you could do this:

Create a duplicate of the image (Ctrl+C, then Ctrl+F). Select both. Make Mask through the Transparency palette. Invert Mask. Here's how that should look:


If it's a tracing:
Use the menu item Object>Expand and make sure Object & Fill are selected in the dialog.



Then fly out the group it made in the Layers palette, pull out the black paths and delete the white paths.

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@Michele215

Illustrator uses a transparent background by default.
If you open an illustrator document or a illustrator-made PDF in Photoshop, you'll see that the background is transparent.
Illustrator simulates the white background.
If you want to work without it, choose View > Show Transparency Grid.

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