Small Nit - Converting To Paths

[Sam Poikail]

A little brain fried here....

Can anyone think of why converting to paths should reset the transparency of
an object to 100%?

Cheers,
Sam

[Coen Naninck]

Sam,

Indeed if you change the "Layers'/Objects'" Transparency it indeed is
reset to 100%. However, you may also want to try out setting the
Transparency in the Fill options. In the Property Inspector there seems
to be no option for that, so you would have to:
- click the Fill box in Tools panel
- and then click 'Fill Options'
- whereafter you may set the Fill Transparency manually.

Now I know that this technique involves you to choose a texture aswell
and this may not be what you want. However, you can also quickly make a
transparent texture and drop that in your Textures folder.
You can make such a texture by drawing out a rectangle with:
- no Stroke
- and no Fill
- in a 96x96 Canvas.

Choose the Transparent texture and set the Transparency to say 40%.
Converting to paths now does not reset the Transparency/Opacity.

This is a nice workaround, although clumsy compared to the
Layers'/Objects' technique.

You may consider filing a bug for this Sam.

Have a great evening!

Coen

Sam Poikail wrote:

> A little brain fried here....
>
> Can anyone think of why converting to paths should reset the transparency of
> an object to 100%?
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>

--


Kind regards,

Coen Naninck
_______________________________

Please do not E-mail me with questions about Fireworks issues. Post
them on the Forum instead. I can't contribute my time I have in
this Forum to also answering questions outside the Forum. It just
takes too much time and it doesn't help the rest of the world.

If you are sending me a file on my own request for help purposes,
then please include the thread subject header.

Thank you.

E-mail : [email]ccnkHAHA@home.nl[/email]
Business: [url]http://www.wetworks.nl[/url]

[Amy Blankenship]

I suspect that when they wrote the piece of FW that does this, they probably
forgot to copy all the properties over. You could probably confirm this by
looking at the js in the history panel. Then you could write a command that
does it correctly.

HTH;

Amy

"Sam Poikail" <indigo_wolf@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bh5mq9$91c$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> No, I understand that, and more often then not I would want the texture.
>
> I had a character from a Dingbat Font... and had applied some effects to

it.

> Needed to maninpulate it some more, so I converted to paths and Boom the
> Opacity setting gets reset.
>
> It's easy enough to change back to what it was.
>
> This was more a workflow/Zen thing: "Does the dog really think we'll get

to

> the park faster if I let HIM drive?"
>
> I would have had less trouble understanding it if it didn't let me change
> the Opacity after converting to paths... I would have seen it as a
> limitation.
>
> As it is, I was just trying to understand why the value wasn't saved (if

it

> really did need to be reset), and then restored after the conversion to
> paths was completed.
>
> Yes, I expect I asked "why is the sky blue?" a lot as a child.
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
>
>
>
> "Coen Naninck" <ccnkHAHA@home.nl> wrote in message
> news:bh5l13$6vi$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> > Sam,
> >
> > Indeed if you change the "Layers'/Objects'" Transparency it indeed is
> > reset to 100%. However, you may also want to try out setting the
> > Transparency in the Fill options. In the Property Inspector there seems
> > to be no option for that, so you would have to:
> > - click the Fill box in Tools panel
> > - and then click 'Fill Options'
> > - whereafter you may set the Fill Transparency manually.
> >
> > Now I know that this technique involves you to choose a texture aswell
> > and this may not be what you want. However, you can also quickly make a
> > transparent texture and drop that in your Textures folder.
> > You can make such a texture by drawing out a rectangle with:
> > - no Stroke
> > - and no Fill
> > - in a 96x96 Canvas.
> >
> > Choose the Transparent texture and set the Transparency to say 40%.
> > Converting to paths now does not reset the Transparency/Opacity.
> >
> > This is a nice workaround, although clumsy compared to the
> > Layers'/Objects' technique.
> >
> > You may consider filing a bug for this Sam.
> >
> > Have a great evening!
> >
> > Coen
> >
> > Sam Poikail wrote:
> >

> > > A little brain fried here....
> > >
> > > Can anyone think of why converting to paths should reset the

> transparency of

> > > an object to 100%?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Sam
> > >
> > >

> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Coen Naninck
> > _______________________________
> >
> > Please do not E-mail me with questions about Fireworks issues. Post
> > them on the Forum instead. I can't contribute my time I have in
> > this Forum to also answering questions outside the Forum. It just
> > takes too much time and it doesn't help the rest of the world.
> >
> > If you are sending me a file on my own request for help purposes,
> > then please include the thread subject header.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > E-mail : [email]ccnkHAHA@home.nl[/email]
> > Business: [url]http://www.wetworks.nl[/url]
> >

>
>