You could use the Gimp to do the job (Rmouse - Edit Image): - Layers dialog - add alpha channel - rectangle select tool: select the rectangle you want to back-color - (Flters) - Colors - Color to Alpha (this changes a chosen color component to transparent) - pick your background color with the color picker (eye dropper tool) - Ok - Layers dialog: add new layer (change it to the color of your preference with the Bucket fill tool) - move the layer down with the arrow icon in the Layers dialog et voila: the colored layer has 'replaced' the background color of the field you want to highlight. You can repeat the (rect.select - Color to Alpha- pick color) for each of the fields you want to highlight.
Pim On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> wrote: > > Thanks. I've tried that now, and it looks great in the properties > > dialogue, but doesn't come out on screen. Is this a known issue in > > 1.3.3.11-1 or am I just doing something wrong ? > > Not sure if this is your problem, but could be. > > A coloured background only works for objects that have a "transparent" > background. > > An imported bitmap most likely does not have a transparent background, but > probably a white background. Putting a coloured box behind "a white paper > with text on" doesn work goood, what you need is "a transparency with text > on". > > > /Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080602/7de65dd9/attachment.htm
