Quark to InDesignCS3 Conversion Guide - InDesign User Group

what else should I know about
transparency?
Dragging and dropping effects.
You can easily transfer transparency
settings from one object to
others by dragging and dropping.
To drag and drop effects, select an
object or a graphic to which transparency
effects are applied. The
Effects panel identifies the object
attributes—Object, Stroke, Fill, Text,
or Graphic—to which effects are
applied by displaying an “fx” label
to the right of the attribute. Drag
an “fx” label onto another object to
transfer effects settings. (Note: When
you drag and drop effects, Blending
Mode and Opacity are not transferred;
only Photoshop effects, such
as Drop Shadow, Inner and Outer
Glow, and so on, are transferred.)
Knockout groups. When a group
of objects is selected and you select
the Knockout Group option in the
Effects panel, every object in the
group knocks out the other objects
in the group. Blending modes and
opacity applied to individual objects
in the group are ignored relative to
other objects in the group, while
objects beneath the selected group
are still visible relative to the group,
and are affected by the blending
modes or opacity settings applied to
objects within the group and to the
group as a whole.
In the example on the left, a bevel and
emboss effect is applied to the stroke of a
text frame. At right, the effect was applied to
three other text frames by dragging the fx
icon (to the right of stroke) in the Effects
panel and dropping it onto the frames.
tips:
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• If you apply settings in the Effects dialog box without first selecting an object,
each object you draw subsequently will have those new settings applied.
• Select the Isolate Blending option in the Effects panel to restrict blending modes
so they affect only the selected group. Objects beneath the group won’t interact
with the blending modes applied to objects in the group.
these examples demonstrate the knockout group feature. In both examples, the green
frame on the left is behind a group of four empty frames to which opacity values are applied.
At left, knockout group is not selected, and the opacity values applied to the frames in the
group affect the other objects in the group as well as the underlying green frame. At right,
knockout group is selected, and the frames in the group are knocked out of other objects in
the group (that is, the opacity values are ignored and the objects are opaque, relative to each
other) but retain their opacity relative to the underlying green frame.
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