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Transparent slides with \uncover command

I am creating slides and want to uncover text from a list in steps. To avoid having to number each \item (a pain when adding a line afterwords), I add \pause after lines that are unveiled in steps. ...
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transparent.sty overlapping text renders as gray in Acrobat

I find that Adobe Acrobat (on Windows 11 and on Android) does not correctly render transparency produced via transparent.sty and PDFLaTeX. Specifically, overlapping text comes out as a uniform gray. ...
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Strange behavior of \transparent

In Opaque figure without tikz, I learned about \transparent, which makes things transparent. One thing I cannot understand is the following: When I run \documentclass{article} \usepackage{transparent} ...
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tcolorbox set background color (colback) to color gradient / gradient to transparent

I wish to create a tcolorbox with a background that fades from a solid color to white, or even transparent, to be able to use it everywhere. I have tried using [enhanced jigsaw, frame style={left ...
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Transparent tcolorbox so I can see my watermark

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[x11names,dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage{tkz-euclide} \usepackage{pgf,tikz,pgfplots,tikz-3dplot} \usepackage{background} \backgroundsetup{ placement=center, ...
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Producing a Glowing Star with the Transparent Package and Pdflatex

Consider the code: \documentclass{book} \textheight 8.5in \textwidth 5.75in \usepackage{xcolor} %\usepackage{transparent} \definecolor{darkpurple}{RGB}{48, 25, 52} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{...
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How to Produce a Transparent Image with Xelatex

I compile the following code with pdflatex (which works fine)--- \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor,graphicx} \usepackage{transparent} \begin{document} \begin{figure} [!htb] \centering \...
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Extending the Features of the Glowing Star Posted by User Sandy G

This following code extends a bit, an answer posted by the user Sandy G in How to Give Stars a Glow Effect which asked for a way to produce a glowing star with LaTeX. \documentclass{book} \textheight ...
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How can I make the part of the past cone transparent, so that the picture looks 3d?

I recently started with tikz and I am absolutely clueless how I can make the labeled part transparent! I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance \usepackage{tikz,tikz-3dplot} \tdplotsetmaincoords{...
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Using transparent pauses in lstlisting using XeLaTex (beamer)

I want to show a piece of code line by line, with lines to be uncovered transparent. The following tex code works just fine as long as I compile with pdflatex: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{...
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Proper use of TikZ fading to cut text from a box with rounded corners

Following up from this post, I am trying to build an illustration to look like this: It's important that the transparent text is indeed transparent, not white. When I compile the following MWE \...
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standalone does not produce a transparent background

In https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/382726/240454, the author claims that the background of tikzpictures are transparent by default. In this MWE, for me, using either pdflatex or xelatex, I remain with ...
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…unwanted transparent text (Xelatex)

I need transparent pictures behind a text. I have a working minimal example, however the text now also appears transparent and I can't find the error. Can someone give me a hint where the problem is? \...
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Make area of image (or PDF) transparent to put text on top

On making a photo book (using the book document class) how to "block out" an area of the image, making only this area transparent/opaque, with the aim of fitting text on top in this area? ...
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pdfTeX is not running in PDF mode - problems with package transparent

I am using to compile my MWE \listfiles \documentclass{article} \usepackage{transparent} \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \begin{document} \texttransparent{0.5}{Hello World} \end{document} But it won'...
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Transparent colorbox with no text

This is related to Vary transparency of colorbox in a sentence I would like to have a transparent colorbox for some overlay and this attempt is not working \documentclass{article} \usepackage{soul,...
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\pause with transparent rounded shadow blocks rendered incorrectly

This simple LaTeX code is not rendered as one may expect. \documentclass{beamer} \setbeamercovered{transparent} \setbeamertemplate{blocks}[rounded][shadow=true] \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{...
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Is the transparent shadows hack for Beamer blocks broken?

I've used the Beamer blocks transparent shadows hack for a long time now (more specifically, the last answer which provides two modified Beamer files to install locally). However, it seems that ...
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Individualized bullet points are not transparent with \setbeamercovered{transparent} [duplicate]

I've a problem with my individualized bullet points in itemize. The text is transparent, but the bullet points aren't. It looks like the following slide: The images for the bullet points are defined ...
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Using Beamer, how do I make text appear on click and gray out afterwards?

Using \pause, text appears on click but stays black afterwards. Using \setbeamercovered{transparent}, text is gray before and afterwards. How do I combine these effects, so the text is completely ...
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How to make text inside tcolorbox also transparent as overlay?

I want to have a slide with some text in a box at the top, and on the next slide, this box - and the text within - become transparent to some opacity i specify. The tcolorbox is crucial to me because ...
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In BEAMER, Bring Front Formula over a Figure

I am totally new in beamer. I have a question about positioning formulas over a Figure in beamer. Previously, I was preparing my presentations with Power Point. In Power Point I could write a formula ...
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transparent text, such that floats and footnotes are affected correctly

My question is very similar to Recolor text, such that floats and footnotes are affected correctly, but I am using transparent text instead of colored text. (I do not simply use grey text because I am ...
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How to colour a table with opaque colour such that no text and no lines are visible?

I am iterating a latex file and want to colour all the tables green such that no text or no lines are visible. I tried using "transparent" but it fades the colour along with the text. I want the ...
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Unwanted text on first page [closed]

I am trying to load svg images into my latex document. I tried using the svg package with \usepackag{svg} and I tried including pdf_tex files from inkscape using \usepackage{color} \usepackage{...
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the text after \onslide is transparent after setting \setbeamercovered{transparent}

I am learning \onslide. I copied the example from the beameruserguide. The last text "Shown on all slides" is transparent after setting \setbeamercovered{transparent}. I don't know why. Could anyone ...
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Clash between pgf and transparent packages

I get an error with the following MWE when using pdflatex. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{pgfkeys, pgfcalendar} \usepackage{transparent} \begin{document} hello world \end{document} ! Undefined ...
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Compatibility between LuaLaTeX and the transparent package

If I run the example below with LuaLaTeX, the transparent package doesn't load with the error: Package transparent Warning: Your pdfTeX version does not support color stacks. (a pretty clear error ...
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Adding transparent characters into class-defined macros

This question is related to a previous question regarding machine readability of a PDF generated using moderncv. I'm trying add some hidden description within the PDF, so the information is not ...
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\includegraphics with transparent

Description I wanted to create a PDF with resource images (square). With this resource image (See below), it contains transparent space. I use \includegraphics to include an image. But when I ...
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option clash hyper ref colorlinks and transparent

I get an option clash between the hyperref option colorlinks when I load transparent (before or after). Here are the other packages I load. \documentclass[english]{beamer} \usepackage{color} \...
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Asymptote: 3D graphics with transparent background

I am using Asymptote to create 3D graphics, which I export to PNG-files. I would like to have a transparent background in the PNG-file. For 2D graphics, I can easily get a transparent background when ...
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3D sphere with TIKZ

I'm trying to recreate this picture, but unfortunately I don't know how to make the transparent spheres. Has anybody an idea? Thanks David \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document}...
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How do I set beamer covered as transparent locally?

I knew setting beamer covered as transparent globally using \setbeamercovered{transparent}. How do I make it work only on some slides, but not all slides? Here is a MWE. \documentclass{beamer} \...
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how to create a pdf with a transparent background

How do I create a pdf file with a transparent background? \documentclass{article} \usepackage{xcolor} \begin{document} \nopagecolor hi \end{document} This doesn't work since \nopagecolor ...
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How to add a transparent logo to the top sidebar of beamer?

This is the code for beamer's sidebar: \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{tikz,graphicx} \title{Title} \author{My name} \institute{My institute} \useoutertheme[right,height=0pt,width=0.12\...
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Transparent text: what alternatives to the transparent package?

I want to write some text with a semi-transparent color. I have tried the transparent package but it seems to be in conflict with some other package. In a MWE, it works BUT in my real case, it does ...
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