Turning transparent objects opaque

Can I make a translucent object appear opaque without using fill? I made a sketch and I'm trying to have it appear in front of the background. Unfortunately, if I use any kind of fill, it ruins my sketch? Is there a way to get around this?

I'm guessing that you can see some background coming through your translucent sections?
without the background selected you cold try flatten transparency, but you will find it changes edit-ability somewhat.
without knowing exactly what your seeing it is hard to help.
a screen shot of what is happening would help us help you.

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I think my previous post on this topic was lost somewhere in the adobe forums machine, so please excuse my repost.
I've noticed that exporting layouts from InDesign CS3 that contain transparent graphics causes the resulting PDF to show DARK LINES AROUND the transparent objects (at the transparent border). I've been using all compatibilities (1.3--1.7), and found that the lines appear on any PDF set to 1.4 or above. (1.3 doesn't have the lines, but it shows stitching lines (white lines) around the entire transparent frame box, so it's unusable.)
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Thanks for the reply. That thread was helpful in showing some of the effects that I'm seeing (e.g., turning off "image smoothing" in the Acrobat preferences helps). However, I'm still interested in producing a clean looking PDF that doesn't contain dark pixels all around the edges of the transparent images.
To show what I'm talking about, I've posted a picture of screen captures with explanations at: http://www.viveredesign.com/images/example3.jpg
This effect only appears when I export a PDF with the Compatibility set to anything above "Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)" (so it only looks good with the oldest item in the list).
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I have a Word document in which I have a bitmap figure. Over this bitmap I have drawn a green 50% transparent rectangle. When printing this directly from Word to the printer everything is fine, if I print it first to a pdf using Acrobat I get a pdf that looks allright (the transparency is simulated by a very fine checker board pattern) but when I then print this pdf to my printer I get interference in the transparent region, which makes this unusable. My guess is that the printer is trying to print this fine pattern and fails. The solution would be that when printing to a pdf the pdf should contain a transparent rectange instead of a checker board pattern.
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Besides the large bitmap I also had an Excel graph pasted into my Word document. This also gave problems. The solution was to shrink the size of the bitmap by first croping it and that pasting it into the Word document, and the graph from Excel has the be pasted as Windows metafile picture. Then using the PDF button in Word creates a pdf with the correct transparency objects. I cannot print the pdf right now because my printer is down but I have no doubt it will work.
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Sorry about my last post. I just thought that if you couldn't get it to work with opaque icons, then you wanted the next best thing. Anyway, maybe it is because the patch is for xfce 4.6.1 .
methuselah wrote:
wankel wrote:
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http://www.cooptel.qc.ca/~pggervais/xfc … tch.tar.gz
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# $Id: PKGBUILD 36266 2009-04-20 20:58:18Z andyrtr $
# Maintainer: tobias <tobias funnychar archlinux.org>
pkgname=xfce4-panel
pkgver=4.6.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Panel for the Xfce desktop environment"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL2')
url="http://www.xfce.org/"
groups=('xfce4')
depends=("libxfcegui4>=$pkgver" 'exo>=0.3.101' 'libwnck' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
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options=('!libtool')
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source=(http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-${pkgver}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
xfce4-panel-4.6.1.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('73a366b9892152266b465d7d9c35bef4'
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