[XeTeX] Transparent Fonts

[William Adams]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Arthur Butler wrote:

> Thank you for your reply, would you be able to provide an example  
> code to achieve the effect?


As I noted, it's trivial.

Given a font named Example, w/ variants called Example Outline and  
Example Solid one would do something like:

\newcommand{\knockedouttype}[1]{\begin{picture}(0,0)\put(0,0) 
{\textcolor{white}{\fontspec{Example Solid}#1}}\end{picture} 
\textcolor{black}{\fontspec{Example Outline}}}

Not tested, not even sure if I got the grouping right --- but one has  
to have the fonts first.

If you don't, I'd suggest using Cenon to convert type to paths and set  
the colours as desired:

http://www.cenon.info

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications