Hallo dear developer, since I use Rhino 8, I can’t print png files with a transparent background, but there is always a white background. I have no problems with Rhino 7. There are some problems, because I tried all the options available but I can’t solve it. Thanks and best regards

Have you tried _ViewCaptureToFile? [image]

Hi John - [image] John Robinson: I can’t print png files with a transparent background, but there is always a white background. The feature request is on the list as RH-10758 Transparent background -wim

Why do people use “Print” to not print, or at least to “print” to anything but PDF? I’ve never even thought of doing such a thing. Rendering and viewcapture are for making bitmaps.

@J-Rob This command is for PNG output with transparency and I always use it, and there is no white background opening in any other applications such as Photoshop, Illustrator, or powerpoint…when you print it on white paper, transparent regions are “ white paper”. Maybe I do not understand in your si…

This is akin to asking why people press the camera shutter on a phone instead of taking a screenshot. People want to have the option to generate an image file without background color while keeping the other settings - lineweight, dimensions, margins, scale, etc. This may very well not matter in …

yet I’m pretty sure that in Rhino 7 at some point the “printed” background was transparent, because I used it often.

There are approximately 15 other ways of doing that than this obscure relic of a Windows 3.1 feature, or just better overall workflows.

If you could provide the community with some of those 15 other ways, it would be greatly appreciated.

[image] John Robinson: yet I’m pretty sure that in Rhino 7 at some point the “printed” background was transparent, because I used it often. This feature never existed in Rhino. Maybe you were running the ViewCaptureToFile command instead?

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RH-10758 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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