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[Wookey]

+++ Olly Betts [04-12-29 01:14 +0000]:

>> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:36:15AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
>
>>> > Also - as you can see on that pdf I am not getting any transparency on
>>> > overlaying passages (despite having 'transparency on', 'opacity 50'). How do
>>> > I fix that? or is it just that my viewer (xpdf) can't do it and it is just
>>> > output into the PDF?
>
>>
>> Jenny found xpdf wasn't showing the transparency just before the BCRA
>> conference (latest xpdf from debian unstable at the time).  It worked
>> at uni using a fairly recent version of the Adobe viewer on Windows
>> 2000.
>>
>> A quick poke round the web seems to confirm this as a limitation of
>> xpdf.


So it is - if I use gpdf then I get transparency.

xpdf is realy handy though because you can leave a window open and do 'R' to
reload the file each time you run a therion update (which is _really_often_
so that you can tell when you last broke it and so that I don't lose much when
it hangs), gpdf doesn't have this very handy feature.

Wookey
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