In case anyone else comes along with the same problem: I was able to work around by choosing the file type during export and instead of using Cairo PNG, I used PNG (anti-aliased). This doesn't give you a transparency option, but for my purposes it worked fine.
In case anyone else comes along with the same problem: I was able to work around by choosing the file type during export and instead of using Cairo PNG, I used PNG (anti-aliased). This doesn't give you a transparency option, but for my purposes it worked fine.