My setup: R 2.4.0, Windows 2000, Acrobat Reader 7. When I create a .pdf with translucent colors, the translucency works correctly for points, but not for text. Below is some R code that creates a .pdf with this phenomenon.
I was going to report this as a bug in R, but then I tried to view the pdf with a couple of other viewers and found that at least one of the viewers correctly displayed the file (with translucent text), so maybe it is a bug with Acrobat Reader. It might be worth checking to see if colors for "text" are handled any differently than colors for "points" that might cause this problem. Best, Kevin Wright black <- rgb(0,0,0,.75) blue <- rgb(0, .2, 1, .75) red <- rgb(1,0,0,.75) pdf("pdfcols.pdf", version="1.4") set.seed(50) plot(.5,.5,type="n",xlim=c(0,1),ylim=c(0,1)) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=black) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=blue) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=red) text(.1, .1, "This is red", col=red) text(.1, .1, "Also red", col=red) text(.2, .2, "This is blue", col=blue) text(.2, .2, "Also blue", col=blue) text(.3, .3, "This is black", col=black) text(.3, .3, "Also black", col=black) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=black) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=blue) points(runif(200),runif(200), col=red) dev.off() ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel