On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:51:14 -0400
John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A project specifies that for the cover of a brochure there be a photograph as
> the background (doable in Context), and semi-transparent rectangles across
> the page highlighting the various strings of text. The rectangles darken but
> do not completely block out the underlying illustration. It is a layer
> cake, a photo, with semi-transparent rectangles laid across it, and type
> within the rectangles.
>
> This is a job more easily done in Gimp etc. but my question is, can it be
> done
> in Context at all? How do I create the semi-transparent elements?
Hi John,
you can define a color for the transparent background of the text and
place it with the cover text at the background.
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupexternalfigures[location=global]
\definecolor[coverred][r=1,a=1,t=.5]
\defineoverlay[coverimage][\overlayfigure{mill}]
\definelayer
[covertitle]
[width=\paperwidth,
height=\paperheight]
\setlayerframed
[covertitle]
[hoffset=0cm,
voffset=8cm]
[frame=off,
width=\paperwidth,
height=6cm,
background=color,
backgroundcolor=coverred,
align={middle,lohi}]
{\tfd Cover Text}
\starttext
\setupbackgrounds[page][background={coverimage,covertitle}]
\startstandardmakeup
\stopstandardmakeup
\stoptext
Wolfgang
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