Michael Try the edit text dialogue. shade is 100% button next to fill colour.
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 23:18, Michael G. Schmidt wrote: > 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! :) > I just tried your way at my German scribus 1.2.1 Version. The Menupoints > were: Bearbeiten -> Farben ...and now there wasn't anything like > opacity. I've had the possibility to change the percents of YMCK but > that's what it was. Do you have an other or better version of scribus? > Michael > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
