[XeTeX] "Options for all fonts" : colo[u]r, and the transparency byte

[Barry MacKichan]

In Fontspec.pdf, p. 16:

Transparency is supported
by LuaLATEXand by X ELATEX with the xdv2pdf driver (Mac OS X only); X ELATEX with
the xdvipdfmx driver does not support this feature.

--Barry


On Jun 5, 2011, at 8:33 AM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

> YES :-)))  Finally it works.  As I am already using TikZ because I also need
> text-along-a-path, this solution is perfect.  Thank you very much indeed
> (but of course I would dearly love to know why the documented RGBA
> specifier for the font colour does not work !).