On 3/26/2014 11:42 PM, Schmitz Thomas A. wrote:

Hi,

this is pretty shallow, but maybe someone knows a way: for one of my presentation, every slide has a (different) picture as background. The title is typeset within a narrow colored frame which extends across the entire slide. Is there any way to make the background picture show through the letters of the title, i.e. make the letters transparent within the colored frame? I thought of metapost’s infill, but it appears that this only adds a background color, not real transparency.

Hope the question is clear enough - just in case someone has a suggestion; my life doesn’t depend on it!

\starttext \startMPcode draw externalfigure("mill.png") xysized(10cm,4cm) ; draw textext("\bf LOOK THROUGH") xysized(10cm,4cm) shifted center currentpicture withcolor red withtransparency (1,0.4) ; \stopMPcode \stoptext or \starttext \defineoverlay [page] [\overlayfigure{mill.png}] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=page] \definecolor[myred][a=1,t=.4,r=.4] {\color[myred]{\definedfont[Bold*default at 60pt]LOOK THROUGH}} \stoptext or ... Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------