Unable to cover up text on pages using the master page within Publisher.

[Wayne Burrows]

Hello All,

I am trying to use a master page to cover up some titles on the pages of the body of a PDF file. I want to type in my own titles after doing this but for some reason, I haven't been able to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I position a rectangle in the proper place on the master page but the titles are still visible on every page within the file.

What has to be done to hide text on pages within the body of a file by way of using master pages?

Here's a short video of me demonstrating what I'm trying to get done, if it's helpful.

Thanks!

WB

[GarryP]

Look at the position of the Master Page in the layer stack in the Layers Panel.

It’s below the other stuff on the page and, therefore, is drawn before (under) the other stuff.

If you want <A> to be drawn on top of <B> then you need to put <A> higher up the layer stack than <B>.

There’s no way to ‘automatically’ change the layer stack position of master pages so you may need to reposition them manually.

[NotMyFault]

Blend modes or blend range can help.

you can use

1. Two shade of grey e.g. black and white on the master page 
2. adjust the blend range of all objects on regular pages to make it transparent for that shades, and let your new title shine through over all objects in regular pages

layer trick master on top.afpub

[NotMyFault]

Another dirty trick:

• move all content on regular pages into a group
• set opacity to 1%
• add channel mixer adjustment, select alpha, set offset to 100%

this creates a 99:1 mix of master and regular pages, before restoring full opacity.

[PaulEC]

This post (from walt.farrell at bottom of page) may help: 

 

[Wayne Burrows]

5 hours ago, GarryP said:

Look at the position of the Master Page in the layer stack in the Layers Panel.

There’s no way to ‘automatically’ change the layer stack position of master pages so you may need to reposition them manually.

Hi GaryP,

I am thinking that you didn't watch the 2nd half of the video. I had showed that I am unable (in this example) to move the rectangle layer to the top of the layer stack - and even when I was able to do so in an earlier attempt (don't recall how I pulled it off though) it still didn't hide the titles on the pages for some crazy reason.

The only thing that I have been able to do so far is to drag the 'Master Page' group up to the top level in the layer stack on a particular page and then it covered up the title - but I will definitely NOT be doing that for each and every page. Lol

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Wayne Burrows said:

but I will definitely NOT be doing that for each and every page. Lol

You won't need to if you use the technique I explained in the linked topic above, that PaulEC mentioned. Here's a direct link: 

 

 

[thomaso]

Your question might indicate that you have more than the 6 pages in your video to do. Then another option would be to crop the unwanted titles from the placed images, for instance with a Picture Frame or a clipping parent object or via the Vector Crop Tool. As parent object (like Picture Frame and Rectangle) it could also be placed on a Master Page, together with a new title text object.

This way also the master page with a parent object for the images would work without cropping the images because you could use the text object directly to hide parts of the images.

[Wayne Burrows]

9 hours ago, PaulEC said:

This post (from walt.farrell at bottom of page) may help: 

 

Paul and @walt.farrell, You 2 gentlemen are a couple of beautiful human beings! 😆

I guess that I was too droopy-eyed to catch everything the first time I looked at it and completely overlooked Walt's very last entry in the string of posts. I'm much more alert now and saw it THIS time. I used 'Move to front' besides click-dragging and it worked perfectly.

Thanks for the followup Walt! Greatly appreciate you both for helping me out with this. Extremely Grateful!

WB

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome