Operation Manual

106 Colour, Fills, and Transparency
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 transparency to an object's fill or outline easily.
For example, in the illustration below, the butterflies have a solid (100%
opaque) transparency, a gradient (100% to 0% opaque) transparency
and a solid (50% opaque) transparency from left to right.
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.