[XeTeX] Font transparency

[Romero Medieval]

Thanks to both of you. I'm sorry to hear XeTeX in Windows doesn't support
transparency yet.

Best wishes.
Nicolas


On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec <
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Will Robertson wrote:
> > Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca at ...> writes:
> >
> >> I've been trying to replicate Will Robertson's font transparency
> >> example (in p.11 of the lastest fontenc manual), without success.
> >> I get no transparency efect at all. Is transparency a typeface-
> >> specific feature?
> >
> > I'm afraid this feature is only supported by the xdv2pdf driver on Mac OS
> X;
> > I've added a sentence in the documentation mentioning this. I hope that
> the
> > xdvipdfmx driver might support this one day as the feature is quite neat.
>
> Hello,
>
> Do not ask me how since I don't speak LaTeX, but I bet that you can
> get transparent fonts with some macro package. This tiny ConTeXt
> example uses xdvipdfmx and generates transparent text without any
> problem. I'm sure that there's an equivalent way to do the same in
> XeLaTeX.
>
> \setupcolors[state=start]
> \definecolor[c1][r=1,t=.5,a=1]
> \definecolor[c2][g=1,t=.5,a=1]
> \definecolor[c3][b=1,t=.5,a=1]
>
> \def\test#1#2{\hbox to 1ex{\color[#1]{#2}\hss}}
> \starttext
> \hbox{\test{c1}{this}\test{c2}{is}\test{c3}{transparent}}
> \stoptext
>
> Mojca
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