[pdftex] Setting the overwrite mode for text

[Duncan Hothersall]

Siep Kroonenberg (28/10/2005 09:14) said:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 09:47:40AM +0200, Joerg Heinrich wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I'm using pdfTeX (Web2C 7.4.5) 3.14159-1.10b and have following problem:
>>I have to set a black text on a colored background in the PDF overwrite 
>>mode, but I don't know
>>how can I do this.
>>Can someone help me?
>>
>>Regards,
>>   Joerg
> 
> 
> Look at http://tex.aanhet.net/overprint/

Or if you are a ConTeXt user (www.pragma-ade.com) you can just put

setupcolors[overprint=yes]

in your file. See also http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Colors

Duncan