Tool and Transparent

[Dan Gabriello]

Dear Moderator/Helper

When I choose a Rectangle Tool and place it on my  the site that I am working on and following changing it to a Frame Text tool - and make it a certain color, but want the container/box to become completely transparent - so, if I have like a beautiful picture of a sunset with mountains behind in the background - and want to be able to see them through the frame, but still clearly see the text - how do I do this? 

In old days using Serif Page Plus 8X or 9X - it was quite easy to do:

1. Open a new site like A4 vertical.

2. Choose the Rectangular Picture Frame.

3. Find a picture and put it into the Rectangular Picture Frame - and make the frame as big as the page itself. 

4. Then send the picture to behind. 

5. Now choose a Quick Shape Flyout - like Quick Rectangle - and place it on the site. Then choose a color for the box in the Swatches panel like "Red".

6. Now choose a Standard Text Frame and place it inside the Quick Rectangle and type som text choosing in the Swatches panel "White color" for the text. Make it as big or small as you want. 

7. Now choose the Quick Rectangle and go to the Transparency tab - and choose the grade of transparency - like almost invisible.

8. And boom you have the perfect result the Quick Rectangle becomes transparent, so you can see the background picture behind - and at the same time clearly read the text. 

How do I do this in Affinity Publisher. There must be an easy way to do this - since the Affinity program should be much more advanced technically than Serif Page Plus X9. 

Otherwise I cannot use the Affinity Publisher for anything - and will return to use my Serif Pageplus X9, which actually is a wonderful program to use, if you are not - like me - a professional layouter or designer, but a professional opera singer just needing to design beautiful Curriculum Vitae, Concert Program, Opera Performance Programs, Project descriptions etc.  

Hope you can help me with a quick response, because I am sitting and working on a 25 page project, which must be finished in the end of next week - so I am extremely busy. 

Please set your reply up in the same way that I have done to you like 1. do like this. 2. do like this. 3. do like this etc. - it is easier for me to understand - and please not to much technical wording - it must be fast and easy to read, because my time is very short now. I bought the Affinity program, because I thought it was much smarter than Serif Pageplus X9, but now I have just spent 4 hours of reading the manual - watching the instructions videos - and have not yet got the information that I need. 

In advance

Many Thanks. 

Dan Gabriello 

 

 

 

[R C-R]

If I understand correctly, you just want text with no background color that would obscure the photo (or whatever) behind it. If I have that right, you could just use the Frame Text Tool to create a text frame & type your text in it.

[Dan Gabriello]

No, this is not it. Maybe I explained wrongly. I want to place Frame Text, which is transparent, but that the frame still is various grade of colored. 

Best.

Dan 

Example 2.pdf

[v_kyr]

Shouldn't be a problem, see the "View > Studio > Textframe" options panel ...

[HVDB Photography]

In that case, just lower the opacity of the chape.

Or add a background color to the text frame (character panel) and also lower the opacity of it

[Old Bruce]

Set up your text frame using the Frame Text tool (for placement and size) and Frame text Studio for the colour and its level of transparency. Use the font colour to set it to white, easiest way is to select all the text and then use the colour studio. Your example PDF shows white text if you want Transparent text set it is more difficult in that the entire Frame will be transparent as well.