On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 17:01 +1000, Owen Cook wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2005, Michael G. Schmidt wrote: > > > >Properties->Text->shade % > > > > > >do what you want for 'transparency'? > > > Thank you Owen! :) > > I want to lay a big "40" over a picture;) > > > Well, what I would do is; > > 1. Make a 'big 40' in Inkscape and export it as a png > 2. Make another layer over your picture > 3. Place the 40 image on the layer and adjust to size > 4. Make the background "None" > 5. Adjust the opacity to suit. > > There are probably easier ways.
Yep. Create a text frame, put the text in it, adjust colour, size etc to suit. Go to Properties->Colours and set Opacity to something suitable like 30%. If you want to do more fancy work with the letters than the normal text styles will allow, you can convert the letters to outlines; that'll let you edit the letter shapes themselves. -- Craig Ringer
