Ok.
I have a black box that I made in Illustrator and I want to make that box transparent so I can see whatever behind it. How do I do that in Illustrator??
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Suzanne posted this at 01:14 — 17th January 2002.
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Shotaker, you want to remove the fill from the black box, or move it to a lower layer. I'm not sure in Illustrator, but there should be options if you right click on the object to control fill.
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Megan posted this at 03:15 — 17th January 2002.
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Well, it's easy to make something completely transparent, but it doesn't seem to me that Illustrator 8 (which is the version I have) supports semi-transparency at all !?!?!? Weird!
The best thing I can find is at the bottom of the Pathfinder palette you'll find two boxes called "soft mix" and "hard mix" but that only lets you overlap two colours....
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Shotaker posted this at 16:27 — 17th January 2002.
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I know it is possible to do.. maybe not with Illustrator 8 (which is also what I have) but with 9 or 10.
Thanks for checking everyone!
Mac Guru posted this at 23:01 — 21st January 2002.
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Anything pre Illustrator 9.0 does not support transparency AT ALL. If at all possible get IL 9 if you want transparency.
IL 8 and below only allow for 100% Fill and 0% fill.
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Shotaker posted this at 17:10 — 22nd January 2002.
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Thanks for the clarification!