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

[Craig Ringer]

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.

-- 
Craig Ringer