[Scribus] Transparenz fuer Buchstaben und Ziffern/Transparency for letters

[Michael G. Schmidt]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:01 +1000, Owen Cook wrote:
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>>On Tue, 31 May 2005, Michael G. Schmidt wrote:
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>>>>Properties->Text->shade %
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>>>>do what you want for 'transparency'?
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>>>Thank you Owen! :)
>>>I want to lay a big  "40" over a picture;)
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>>Well, what I would do is;
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>>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.
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>>There are probably easier ways.
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>Yep.
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>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%.
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>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.
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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