Transparency tool

[javierr]

Hi there!

In Designer, is there a way to know, quickly, if a layer is using the Transparency Tool (the wine glass)? I don't see any icon in the Layers Panel and maybe can be difficult to guess where the transparency comes from, as there are several places to check for opacity/transparency isssues:

1. At object level: fills and strokes
2. At layer level: Opacity settings
3. At Layer Effects level: Fill opacity
4. At Tool level: Transparency Tool

Also, another question, what "Select->Select object->Transparent Objects" does? Always selects all of my objects, regardless if they are transparent or not.

Thank you!

[v_kyr]

19 minutes ago, javierr said:

In Designer, is there a way to know, quickly, if a layer is using the Transparency Tool (the wine glass)?

AFAIK no. - If you don't add some own layer indication naming or tagging for that, you can't tell and have to determine from the layers icon. - The same here applies for full Gradients.

• Transparency tool
• Transparency editing

24 minutes ago, javierr said:

Also, another question, what "Select->Select object->Transparent Objects" does? Always selects all of my objects, regardless if they are transparent or not.

Yes, that looks somehow to be buggy, since usually it should then only select objects of that matching type, aka transparent objects.

• Selecting objects

[carl123]

44 minutes ago, javierr said:

In Designer, is there a way to know, quickly, if a layer is using the Transparency Tool

With the layer selected, select the Transparency Tool

The nodes & line of the transparency will show up in the document, if the layer has transparency

[v_kyr]

1 minute ago, carl123 said:

With the layer selected, select the Transparency Tool ...

I think the point is more to tell quickly by/with a look at the layers in the layer panel here. When I would have >200 layers what you describe to do then is pretty cumbersome to go through all layers in order to determine!

[javierr]

Yes, that is the idea, to check quickly in case you have a lot of layers. That is why I thought about the "Select transparent" option, but does not seem to be working (should we try to inform about this bug (if it is a bug)?)

One workaround is to select one of the objects which has Transparency Tool applied, and then "Select->Select Same->Transparency".

[v_kyr]

18 minutes ago, javierr said:

(should we try to inform about this bug (if it is a bug)?)

If it hasn't already been reported somewhere in the forums bug section so far. Or if there is already a report you can add your two cents to that then (... you have to do a search over the forum to find out).

[N.P.M.]

40 minutes ago, javierr said:

One workaround is to select one of the objects which has Transparency Tool applied, and then "Select->Select Same->Transparency".

This is the designed behavior
Works only with the exact same transparency settings though.
Select Object>Transparent Objects (should) select all objects that have transparency.
You'd be better off to address this the other way around eg. naming the layers or adding a tag color.
But I would like to see that hourglass in the layer as indicator too.

[v_kyr]

8 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

Select Object>Transparent Objects selects all objects that have transparency.

Actually that behaves for me here (under MacOS) too more like a Cmd-a (aka select all), since it always selects all layers, even those objects which don't have any transparency applied at all.

[N.P.M.]

1 minute ago, v_kyr said:

Actually that behaves for me here (under MacOS) too more like a Cmd-a (aka select all), since it always selects all layers, even those objects which don't have any transparency applied at all.

Ah got it, must be a bug 
 

[v_kyr]

2 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

??
 

As already said above, Select > Select Object > Transparent Objects selects always everything for me too here. So no matter if an object has no transparency applied at all, it will be selected too here!

[N.P.M.]

see my previous post
It is the same on windows.
Clearly a bug as it should only select objects with at least some transparency.

[javierr]

4 hours ago, v_kyr said:

If it hasn't already been reported somewhere in the forums bug section so far. Or if there is already a report you can add your two cents to that then (... you have to do a search over the forum to find out).

Hi! I haven't found anything, so I created a new bug report, in case you are interested in following it: