Re: Transparent colors

"Mr. Shawn H. Corey" <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:35:33 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rick Measham wrote:
> (Posting via Yahoo's website because my emails never seem to make it
> .. Yahoo's groups suck :-/)
> 
> Is there any way to create a 'transparent' object?
> 
> I'd like to lay down a rect() in yellow that 'highlighted' a part of
> the page. So the yellow would need to be transparent. Something like
> 'multiply' in Photoshop or Illustrator.

If you want to highlight some text, lay the rectangle down before the text.  For an existing document, create a new page, add the rectangle, copy the old page and delete it.


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  Shawn

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