transparency is about transparent material in (La)TeX documents
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\includegraphics PDF, color problem
I'm using pdflatex, and use \includegraphics to include content of figures from PDF. PDF are exported from InkScape.
\begin{figure} [!h]
\centering
\includegraphics[height=3cm]{fig/SUSAN.pdf}
...
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Using opacity in TikZ causes strange rendering in Acrobat.
I have a problem using opacity in TikZ. Whenever I use it somewhere in a picture,
I get weird side-effects: colors in (some) other parts of the documents are changed apparently randomly and it makes ...
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Using opacity in TikZ makes the entire page become “more coarse” when printed
In my document, some of the figures uses opacity. In the PDF viewer, everything looks fine, but when I print the document, the pages in which these figures appear become more "coarse"; the text looks ...
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Transparency in tikz, preview package and xelatex
Is it possible to have transparency in a tikz picture while using the preview package and compiling with xelatex?
The following mwe compiles without warnings/errors under both xelatex and pdflatex ...
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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 ...
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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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votes
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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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votes
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tikz/eso-pic watermark isn't transparent on the first page
I'm seeing odd behavior when trying to use a watermark with tikz and eso-pic.
Here is my example document:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{eso-pic}
\usepackage{tikz}
...
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votes
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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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How do I get transparent text?
I am trying to make a picture for the cover of my thesis using LaTeX. I have a background picture and I would like to have transparent (math) text on top of it, how do I achieve this? I have tried to ...
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votes
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Transparent background for mdframed environment?
Is it possible to specify a transparent background colour for the mdframed environment, so that anything which might be underneath will be visible?
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PSTricks transparency does not work with MikTeX's XeLaTeX
I use MikTeX and have updated all packages several minutes ago. The problem is that XeLaTeX produces a weird result where the transparency parts become opaque. It is not caused by preview as ...
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votes
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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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votes
1answer
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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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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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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 ...
