Thanks for the info about Inkscape! I tried using your suggested method for the transparency issue, it made the background lighter but you can still see a dark shade box around the logo. I had read that flattening an image would resolve it or using CMYK versus RGB was an issue, not sure but the color has alpha value of 0, and I still see a shaded box around the logo when it prints from pdf it doesn't show up when I print from anything else...