If I understood what you need, than the following code may help you (you need the package tikz):<br>
<br>
\begin{figure}<br>
\begin{<b>tikzpicture</b>}<br>
\node [opacity=0.15] {\includegraphics[...]{...}};<br>
\end{<b>tikzpicture</b>}<br>
\end{figure}<br>
<br>
[]s<br>
Ivan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 18:45, Philip TAYLOR <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear Colleagues -- I am including a large number (> 4000)<br>
of graphic images in PDF format in a LaTeX document through<br>
the medium of the Graphicx interface. To achieve a nice<br>
visual balance between the images (which were scanned at<br>
different times, and processed using different technologies),<br>
I can adjust the relative size of each. But for some extremely<br>
heavy images (see attached, which are the same abbreviation<br>
in two very different scribal hands, and processed using<br>
very different technologies), reducing the size is insufficient :<br>
what I really need is to be able to make the heavier graphic less<br>
intrusive, either by rendering it partially transparent or<br>
by mapping the fully saturated black to a less saturated grey.<br>
<br>
I can find nothing in the Graphicx documentation that suggests<br>
that either of these is possible, but in the faint hope that<br>
I have overlooked something, I am asking here.<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
Philip TAYLOR<br>
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