The semi-transparent text feature [1] has the control on the Font Effects dialog page [2]. The control allows entries from 0 to 100%, but for 100%, the result is that the text is not transparent, and re-opening the dialog after setting 100% gives 0%. Having transparency of 100% could be useful, e.g. for the text that needs to be invisible, but occupy space. This is different both from making its color white (which would make the text visible on non-white text, esp. gradients/bitmaps/etc.), and from making it hidden (which makes the text not occupy space, with following data moving up when printing). However, if there is a reason to disallow 100% transparency, then the control needs to be adjusted to not allow entry of 100%. [1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0#Writer [2] https://help.libreoffice.org/7.2/en-US/text/shared/01/05020200.html?DbPAR=WRITER#hd_id0123200902243377
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #0) > [2] By the way, the help page says: > The value 100% means entirely transparent So it seems that at least help authors assumed that 100% is possible :)
confirm in Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ac80ec817eb07c77a51bc0729985a473c734182e CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: ru-RU (ru_RU); UI: ru-RU Calc: threaded
Just check what Word does, the intention is that the behavior is consistent with Word.
Created attachment 174530 [details] Some transparency in text Word behaves as expected for transparency 100%. The attachment has "psu" in the first paragraph set to 100% transparency, which is blank in Word, and is not transparent in Writer.
Thanks, that would be indeed nice to fix.
Issue reproduced in: Version: 7.0.6.2 Build ID: 144abb84a525d8e30c9dbbefa69cbbf2d8d4ae3b CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded Version: 7.5.0.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 77cd3d7ad4445740a0c6cf977992dafd8ebad8df CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded and a master build from today: Version: 7.6.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 8ae84bb5566e12df64236a116b9d1889d6f5f052 CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded