Shotaker — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:10:31 +0000

Thanks for the clarification!

Mac Guru — Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:01:14 +0000

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.

Mac Guru

Shotaker — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:27:40 +0000

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!

Megan — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 03:15:11 +0000

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....

Just as a sidenote - I've been fiddling with some layouts in Flash lately. I'm finding it a really good tool to work with just for layout design. You can always export as a graphic and then bring it back into another program for slicing and optimizing.

Suzanne — Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:14:34 +0000

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.

Suzanne