Operation Manual

Colour, Fills, and Transparency 239
Working with transparency
Transparency effects are great for highlights, shading and shadows, and
simulating "rendered" realism. They can make the critical difference between
flat-looking publications and publications with depth and snap. PagePlus fully
supports variable transparency and lets you apply solid, gradient, or bitmap
transparencies to an object's fill or outline easily.
(A) bitmap transparency, (B) solid transparency, (C) gradient transparency
Transparencies work rather like fills that use "disappearing ink" instead of
colour. The more transparency in a particular spot, the more "disappearing"
takes place there, and the more the object(s) underneath show through. Just as a
gradient fill can vary from light to dark, a transparency can vary from more to
less, i.e. from clear to opaque, as in the illustration:
(A) Linear Transparency, (B) Path,( C) Effect on Object