Well now everything seems to be working ok. I'm not sure what happened. I have no idea what caused this, or what solved it. But it does appear to be solved at the moment :D Isn't it maddening when that happens. My problem is that Inkscape crashes when I hit 'close'. Not only does the document disap...

Much appreciate your response brynn, thank you. After much trial and error with Inkscape and Scribus I think I have solved my problem, though I am not quite certain how ! I can now recognise transparancy through the document properties box. What confused me initially was the instruction under 'Pick'...

Greetings Inkscaplogists ! Having been asked to supply my work in .eps format I downloaded Inkscape, so I'm completely new to it. But like vbrad in October last year I am having problems with rasterizing when the .svg is saved as .eps. I have tried Scribus, Ghostviewer, and, as flamingolady suggests...