: Save Illustrator as PDF with transparent background Is there a way to export my artwork as PDF so that it has a transparent background? Something like exporting objects only... whenever I try

@Kaufman565

This solution worked for me:

In Acrobat, go to Preferences > Accessibility > Replace Document Colors - toggle this to off

Good Luck!

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@Jamie315

Long story short, .eps is the slow cousin of .pdf. Use .pdf.

Your .pdf problem is, I think, no problem at all.. As long as you save your file as Pdf 1.4 or higher, you should be good to go. Pdf 1.4 is the earliest pdf version to support transparency.

Since you said that "it always comes with a full white background", I'm assuming that you tried viewing the .pdf in acrobat ( or any other preview thingie you might have used ), which showed you a white background. I'd say that pretty much every .pdf capable viewing application has a default setting that shows a white background for convenience.

You can just try opening the .pdf in some editing application like Illustrator or Indesign or Photoshop to make sure, or In Acrobat settings Cmd+K > Page display > Transparency grid, you can turn on the view that shows you the transparency grid that is much like the one Photoshop has.

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