Craig Ringer wrote: >On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:01 +1000, Owen Cook wrote: > > >>On Tue, 31 May 2005, Michael G. Schmidt wrote: >> >> >> >>>>Properties->Text->shade % >>>> >>>>do what you want for 'transparency'? >>>> >>>> >>>Thank you Owen! :) >>>I want to lay a big "40" over a picture;) >>> >>> >>Well, what I would do is; >> >>1. Make a 'big 40' in Inkscape and export it as a png >>2. Make another layer over your picture >>3. Place the 40 image on the layer and adjust to size >>4. Make the background "None" >>5. Adjust the opacity to suit. >> >>There are probably easier ways. >> >> > >Yep. > >Create a text frame, put the text in it, adjust colour, size etc to >suit. Go to Properties->Colours and set Opacity to something suitable >like 30%. > >If you want to do more fancy work with the letters than the normal text >styles will allow, you can convert the letters to outlines; that'll let >you edit the letter shapes themselves. > > > Hi Craig and Owen! :) Thank you both for your help very much! Yes, I just have converted my letters to outlines and set the text to the colour white. But this way it overlayed my picture.;) I'm going to try your way.
Is there a possibility to use colour gradient _only_ for letters? Michael
