Transparency in PDFs
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I have a sketchup model inserted in the blue window, and a rectangle with fill behind it. When I output to PDF it doesn't do the transparency. Any ideas what this might be?
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Rob,
Looks to me like the sketchup model style has background selected (in the .pdf)
Have you tried updating you SU model (rt. click....update reference)I'm really just guessing here......can you post the LO file?
Best,
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Hm. I don't know...
Make sure you turn background off in the SU model window and maybe also to turn ground and sky off for the selected style in SU. I had no problem with exporting the pdf.
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I have been struggling with the same problem or at least similar. The problem that I have is that I have a large floor plan which I am trying to annotate. If one adds a label or text over model scene, the text completely hides the scene if it is in the forward position. Moving it to the back exports the scene but the text is now hidden. I am still looking for as solution that is WYSIWYG. Any ideas, suggestions?
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Hi Gary,
When you insert a text field and want it to have a transparent background, select it, go to "Shape style" in the Tray, select the Fill colour button and when the colour wheel pops up push the opacity slider to whatever transparency you want at the bottom. At the top, it will indicate how it would look over (say) a checked pattern.
Once you modified one text field like this, you can "sample" this style and apply it on all your other textboxes. -
Thanks for the fast response. As the song goes "looking for 'transparency' in all the wrong places". That did the trick.
Another slightly related problem (while you are online). With all of my poking I have come to a point where the dimensions I add are not scaled to the model. The present state is: I have inserted a model and selected a scene. When adding a dimension, the resulting dimension value is not related to the scale of the model but rather to the size or scale of the paper in LO.
I have no idea how I got here. Any ideas?
Thanks
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Gaieus:
I should have looked a little closer. I had the Default layer selected. Thanks all the same.
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Hi Gary,
Well, I must have looked elsewhere "when I was still online" so sorry for coming back so late to this.
I do not think the dimension tool should have anything to do with the layers. However under arrange (menu), you can set snapping to object or grid. When set to object, it dimensions the model (until you explode it) while with grid snap on, it will dimension paper space. I am not sure what was set to you as when selecting the dimension tool, it should automatically toggle object snap on and grid snap off (AFAIK)
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