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    • keea1111K Offline
      keea1111
      last edited by

      Hi,

      Is it possible to change the opacity level of text in LO, or turn text to grey?  Would be very helpful, but can't seem to get it to work.  Does anyone have any insight?  thanks,  Keea
      

      KEEA

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      • B Offline
        bjanzen
        last edited by

        PC or Mac? On Mac, command-t and the font panel has text color, and you can set opacity on the color inspector.

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        • keea1111K Offline
          keea1111
          last edited by

          thank you..that works great...Keea

          KEEA

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          • GaieusG Offline
            Gaieus
            last edited by

            Those privileged Mac users...
            πŸ˜’

            Gai...

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            • C Offline
              chuck
              last edited by

              Don't know a way to alter text directly - but if you put a shape with Fill and Stroke set to background color and set both fill and stroke it to a percent of transparency, over the text it makes the text view and print as gray.


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              • C Offline
                Charlie__V
                last edited by

                @bjanzen said:

                PC or Mac? On Mac, command-t and the font panel has text color, and you can set opacity on the color inspector.

                OK...how about on PC? (Win7)
                (I can set color......but pacity slider does nothing) 😞

                Thanks,
                Charlie

                Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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                • C Offline
                  Charlie__V
                  last edited by

                  Probably should have just asked if anyone else on PC can confirm no opacity control on LO text.
                  So...anyone?

                  Thanks,
                  Charlie

                  Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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                  • C Offline
                    Charlie__V
                    last edited by

                    OK.....confirmed. πŸ˜’

                    C

                    Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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                    • FrederikF Offline
                      Frederik
                      last edited by

                      @unknownuser said:

                      OK.....confirmed. πŸ˜’

                      You're right...
                      It's not possible to set the opacity of text color...
                      Would be a good idea to post a feature request... πŸ˜„

                      Cheers
                      Kim Frederik

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                      • C Offline
                        Charlie__V
                        last edited by

                        @frederik said:

                        @unknownuser said:

                        OK.....confirmed. πŸ˜’

                        You're right...
                        It's not possible to set the opacity of text color...
                        Would be a good idea to post a feature request... πŸ˜„

                        Frederik,
                        Thanks for confirming as well.
                        Not sure a feature request would help....apparently it is already a feature....only on Mac.

                        Hmm...can you run Mac OS on windows? (perpendiculars) πŸ˜›

                        Charlie

                        Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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                        • M Offline
                          marcdurant
                          last edited by

                          When this thread started in 2010, the Mac client would allow setting the opacity of text, but the Windows client couldn't set or even display text opacity. To avoid confusion, we recently (LO 2013?) disabled the opacity slider on Mac so that the platforms match.

                          Thanks,
                          Marc

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                            Charlie__V
                            last edited by

                            @marcdurant said:

                            When this thread started in 2010, the Mac client would allow setting the opacity of text, but the Windows client couldn't set or even display text opacity. To avoid confusion, we recently (LO 2013?) disabled the opacity slider on Mac so that the platforms match.

                            Thanks,
                            Marc

                            So........and please pardon........the (hopefully temporary)solution was to have no/0 "client" ability to set text opacity. 😳

                            C

                            Precision M1710/Win 7 Pro 64 bit/i-7 6920 Quad core 2.9 Ghz -3.8/16Gb ram/NVIDIA M5000M 8Gb

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