Re: Blend Level in Fields
On 22 Feb 2006, at 03:07, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Is there some trick for setting transparency in fields (blend) such that the foreground color (the textcolor) is not affected by the blend level? I tried all the ink options... nothing works. I don't think it's possible yet to set the opacity of the field's background separately from its content. Regardless, it doesn't seem that big a deal to set the field's opaque to false and place a translucent image (or graphic under 2.7) behind. I'm a novice in this area, so forgive me if my ignorance shows. If the text is black, I've found setting the ink to blendMultiply, then adjusting the backcolor as appropriate can give a similar effect. Also, on OS X, setting the ink to blend doesn't seem to affect the text color, only the backgroung color. But it affects both on Win XP. Cheers Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Blend Level in Fields
Is there some trick for setting transparency in fields (blend) such that the foreground color (the textcolor) is not affected by the blend level? I tried all the ink options... nothing works. One would think it obvious that the main use of this new feature would be to blend the background behind the type, but not the type itself but that's not the default behavior.. the blend level affects the type as well, making it virtually unreadable if you set the blend level to allow background image to show through. i.e. nice feature but virtually useless for most page layout, unless you actually want super faint, transparent type which is a very rare design decision(almost always the wrong thing to do) Of course the work around is (high nuisance factor...) make a blended field and then put another field on top... but this doubles the number of objects that require management and we could do that before by putting a rectangle image object behind a tranparent field... and setting the blend level of the image... I'm hoping I missed something... Sivakatirswami Himalayan Academy Publications www.HimalayanAcademy.com, www.HinduismToday.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Blend Level in Fields
Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Is there some trick for setting transparency in fields (blend) such that the foreground color (the textcolor) is not affected by the blend level? I tried all the ink options... nothing works. I don't think it's possible yet to set the opacity of the field's background separately from its content. Regardless, it doesn't seem that big a deal to set the field's opaque to false and place a translucent image (or graphic under 2.7) behind. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Blend Level in Fields
On Feb 21, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Sivakatirswami wrote: Is there some trick for setting transparency in fields (blend) such that the foreground color (the textcolor) is not affected by the blend level? I tried all the ink options... nothing works. I don't think it's possible yet to set the opacity of the field's background separately from its content. Regardless, it doesn't seem that big a deal to set the field's opaque to false and place a translucent image (or graphic under 2.7) behind. Hmm let's see. Current project I'm trying to make a bit more classy: 18 fields; quite a bit of tweaking of fld sizes and positions... each change would require an additional tweak of the translucent under cover object... Of course this could be done by script I suppose if one were to be smart enough to name the graphic the same as the field with slight change in nomenclature field name rates graphic name rates-bkgnd repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields create grc --do more stuff here set the rect of grc (the shortname of fld x -bkgnd) to the rect of fld x end repeat But, I think I'll put this in as feature request... I was hoping the new feature meant we finally got background transparency also, so we could design like we do in our old graphic world (InDesign CS2 at the moment) tks skts Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia Design ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
