transparency is about transparent material in (La)TeX documents
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PNG as a background?
Is it possible to use a PNG image as a background, but with selected opacity? It seems to me that standard solutions found here can not change opacity of PNG...
I assume, that in the following one of ...
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Interference between \onslide and \setbeamercovered{transparent}
I'm trying to use \onslide in a table, but since I have the option \setbeamercovered{transparent} in the preamble, it does not produce the overlay of columns.
Here is my example:
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Can fuzzy borders be added to external pictures programmatically?
In my opinion, external pictures are often more pleasing to the eye on a white background when they have fuzzy rather than "sharp" borders. For instance, compare this
to that
Adding fuzzy ...
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Transparency group and decoration markings
How can I set the transparency so that the arrow belongs to the same transparency group as the path?
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings}
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Covered Box Beamer Shadows [closed]
It seems to me that in beamer, a (rounded) box with shadows that is covered (transparent, normally visible on the next slide) has buggy shadows, I'm not sure if this is a know bug, or maybe an error ...
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Beamer: Transparent AND centered background image on intro slide
I know this is similar to other questions. Other answers address either (1) adding a transparent image or (2) centering an image but I cannot find an answer with both. With previous answers I can ...
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Opacity in PDF not rendered the same between Adobe Reader and TeXworks
When producing a PDF from the following example using pdflatex, I get different results between Adobe Reader and TeXworks. I think this is a bug in the way that Reader handles opacity/transparency.
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Make lines disappear, Pst Solides 3D
I'm drawing the following cylinder which represents a water flowing and cooling down
\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\usepackage{auto-pst-pdf}
\usepackage{pst-solides3d}
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Labeling and adding caption inside a figure
Seems like this question is rather closed. However, I feel that something is missing there.
Inside a figure environment, the \caption alone is nice, but its real power comes from the combination with ...
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Can I place a caption inside of an image?
I've recently seen this the following image in this question:
As I was looking for a way to create nice captions (without the "Figure:") for a beamer presentation, I wondered if it was possible to ...
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TikZ: draw objects in transparent objects (3d)
I want to draw a cuboid in another transparent cuboid with TikZ.
Therefore I've created a \newcommand to draw a cuboid.
\documentclass[11pt, halfparskip]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{ucs}
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Adding shadow over image
I'm making a beamer presentation and I'd like to first show an image in its true form:
and in the next slide have it shown with a shadow over a part of it like so:
Is there a way to do this?
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beamer: making a slide transparent and superimposing the next slide
Here is a slide.
The slide before was the one that we still see in the background.
It then became blue and transparent, and the problem line showed up.
Is that possible to use tikZ to arrive at a ...
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Transparent table captions when using onslide with overprint and setbeamercovered{invisible}
The following works correctly in that the right table is shown at the right time, and all alignment works as expected. The only issue is that while the table body is shown as normal, the table ...
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black background when including pdf with transparent background as image
I have a pdf image with transparent background that I'll include by using graphicx (\includegraphics). Everything is fine when using pdfLaTeX to build my pdf, but when I switch to XeTeX the image ...
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Transparency with psSurface in pst-solides 3D
I'm trying to draw a graph with pst-solides3D with the option psSurface :
The problem is as follows :
I want to draw z = +/- (y^2-y^2), which should give a saddle-point graph with the lines x=y and ...
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Includegraphics: set image opacity
I'd like to insert a PDF, but make it "lighter" by setting the opacity to 10% ("background watermark"). How to do that? A solution that works with texlive 2011 would be great.
I use pdflatex and ...
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unattractive additive effect to opacity with pstricks
I'm using pstricks to highlight by boxing or circling replacement text in my math equations. But, I don't want this highlighting to occlude what's behind it. So, I've been setting opacity or ...
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Creating two filled plots that overlap with transparency
I'm using pgfplots to plot two filled curves. I'd like them to overlap transparently so that the "lower" figure can be seen through the "upper one". Using the forget style mode will draw the first ...
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esvect with transparency makes part of the arrow darker
When using the esvect package in a transparency context, one can see that the arrow is built by superposing two "blocks": a line and an arrowhead. But as the line overrides the arrow head, the center ...
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Formulae PNG anti-aliasing [closed]
I would like to render formulae in PNG format for use in various websites. The problem is, every rendering tool I've come across seems to assume a particular background color to perform anti-aliasing, ...
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Jpgfdraw and transparency problems [closed]
I have built dozens of shapes with jpgfdraw . The problem I have is problems with the transparency of shapes. Why this happens? is there a solution?
I take this as an output in pdf after I've done ...
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Overlapping tikz nodes with background fadings
Following the first tutorial in the TikZ manual, I tend to take steps to improve the legibility of tick labels when placed over gridlines. I prefer to use a fading rather than a plain white rectangle. ...
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Included pdf (wallpaper, or includegraphics) has different colors [duplicate]
Edit: Duplicate-clickers, please read on - I believe this case is different, for the following reasons:
a) As I said in original post, I am not printing with Acrobat, but using Skim and Mac OSX ...
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Multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page warning
I updated TexLive to the Ubuntu Quantal version (2012.20120611-4) and I suddenly got this warning:
PDF inclusion: multiple pdfs with page group included in a single page
This is a minimal example ...
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transparency of beamercolorbox and opaqueness of its text
this is a follow up question to How to make partially transparent beamercolorbox
The question is that I would like to have a transparent beamercolorbox, but a not transparent text. What should I do? ...
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Opacity in TikZ, ruins whole structure in Beamer [closed]
I am making a presentation in beamer. I wanted to make a TikZ picture and change it's opacity, locally on specific items. When I did, the structure color changed...
I will attach my preable as well ...
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Transparent image background in beamer
I want to add a background image in my beamer presentation. The thing is that when I use
\usebackgroundtemplate{
\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth,
height=\paperheight]{cern-logo.jpg}
}
in my ...
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How to add a transparent shadow to a block in beamer?
Here my attempt to add a shadow to a block:
\documentclass{beamer}
% add a background image
\setbeamertemplate{background canvas}{\includegraphics[height=\paperheight]{example-image}}
% use rounded ...
3
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1answer
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How can I get transparency in beamer compiling with LaTeX in DVI mode?
This is a follow-up question to How to make partially transparent beamercolorbox
I compiled the code in the answer from Gonzalo Medina, and I noticed the transparency only works with pdflatex.
Is ...
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Problems with pdfLaTeX because of transparencies and transfer curves
I'm about to finish my report for this semester. My document inlucdes a lot of pictures and schematics from different (external) sources. Now the printery (prepress) is complaining about ...
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Difference between draw=none and draw opacity=0 (also for fill=none and fill opacity=0)?
What is the difference between the TikZ key-value pairs draw=none and draw opacity=0? Are they functionally equivalent, or are there situations in which one should be preferred over another? ...
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PGFPlots: line opacity gradient?
Imagine a very simple PGFPlot, e.g.:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot+[no marks]{x^2};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
How can I have the line "fade out" from the left to the right of the ...
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Re-cover Beamer overlays, while keeping a subphrase uncovered?
Original question
In a Beamer presentation that I am writing, I have an itemize list and would like to make each item visible one-by-one. Then, starting on the slide after a given item appears, I ...
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Opaque-to-transparent gradient lost in embedded PDF figure
I have a figure created with Inkscape as SVG and exported as PDF. When I view the PDF directly (e.g. in OS X Preview), it shows correctly. When embedding it in a LaTeX document, it has problems with ...
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Tikz mindmap with opacity, a different approach to venn diagrams
I need to draw Venn diagrams for some special sets. In these sets I knew for example that the intersection of some of them are empty, so I wanted to draw a special venn diagram that omits those empty ...
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How to keep transparent fcolor box?
I am using \fcolorbox on a background that is itself colored; I don't need color inside the box, and I want its background to be transparent so that the background color shows through. The ...
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Semi-transparent background for image
I would like to add a semi-transparent background to an eps figure in beamer. The picture itself has transparent background. I want to add the semi-transparant background as I use the tikz package to ...
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TikZ multipart nodes: How to set text attributes (opacity) for some/all parts
I am using TikZ with the rectangle split multipart node (detailed on pp 450ff in the PGF 2.1 documentation). I need to influence the text opacity of all parts, but whatever I try seems to work only on ...
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Overlay images and block in beamer
I found this slides on Internet with a very nice style.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~tov/pubs/alms/alms-popl2011-slides.pdf
How can I overlay blocks and image as in this slides?
Specially this ...
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Partially transparent text box
I am trying to make a poster using beamer. Can any one please reply me, my question is:
How can I make my boxes partially transparent so that my background will be visible through the boxes?
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No transparency in TikZ pictures including external PDF graphics in XeLaTeX [closed]
I was trying to create a tikzpicture environment which includes external graphics (as a PDF). The external graphics should be translucent, so I used the opacity parameter. Using pdfLaTeX it works as ...
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How to create a figure with latex labels and handling transparency in gnuplot?
I am very fond of latex labels in my gnuplot figures, and the way I generate most of them is via the pslatex terminal.
Here, I would like to take advantage of transparency in a figure (superimposed ...
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How to change white background of an included PDF to transparent
I have an external 100 pages PDF document (not created by pdflatex) that I \includegraphics page-wise into a beamer presentation. The external PDF document employs white as page color, but I need the ...
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TikZ: Paling Effect
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{patterns}
\def\cHeight{0.5}
\def\cWidth{4}
\newcommand{\cigarOne}[2]{
\pgfmathtruncatemacro\result{\cWidth/2}
...
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Whitespace instead of all images [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to replace all pictures by white rectangles?
Placeholder for figure/includegraphics
I want all images to disappear, e.g. replace all images (defined by ...
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TikZ semi transparent contiguous shapes with no gaps
Short Question:
The short question can be stated as follows: Is there a way to perfectly align filled (but possibly not drawn) shapes that completely cover contiguous areas?
Consider the MWE:
...
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How to specify transparent colors?
What options are there to specify transparent colors, say the background in the example below? I thought xcolor would be able to do this but I can not find any reference to "alpha" or "transparency" ...
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Assign the same color to overlapping parts of the shadows of several objects
I am drawing a database icon that is made of two cylinder shapes using TikZ. When I add a shadow, the shadows of the two cylinders overlap, and the shadow becomes darker in the overlapping area. The ...
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Including a PDF with white background as transparent
I actually have two related questions.
I have a PDF I want to use with includegraphics in a beamer presentation. This PDF has a white background, which I want to be considered as transparent (so ...
