Adobe InDesign - Manual (Page 649)

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layers. However, imported graphics with those types of transparency effects will appear and print correctly.
1. Select the object or objects.
The word mixed appears in the Effects panel if you select multiple objects and their opacity settings conflict. For example, if the Fill opacity
setting is different in objects you selected, the Transparency palette reads, “Fill: Opacity (mixed).”
2. Choose Object, Stroke, Fill, or Text with any of these techniques:
Click the Apply Effects button on the Control panel and choose an option.
Click an option on the Effects panel (click the triangle next to the word Object, if necessary, to see the options).
3. On the Control panel or Effects panel, type a value for Opacity or click the arrow next to the Opacity setting and drag the slider. As the
opacity value of objects is reduced, the transparency increases.
If you direct-select and cut or copy an object from a transparent group in InDesign, and then paste the object somewhere else in the
document, the pasted object won’t be transparent unless it was previously selected individually and had transparency applied.
Applying transparency to groups
Besides applying transparency effects to single objects, you can apply them to groups.
If you simply select objects and change their individual opacity settings, the selected objects’ opacity will change relative to that of the others. Any
overlapping areas will show an accumulated opacity.
In contrast, if you target a group that has been created with the Group command, and then change the opacity, the group is treated as a single
object by the Effects panel (the Effects panel shows only one level option—Group), and the opacities within the group don’t change. In other
words, objects within the group don’t interact with each other in transparency.
Individual objects selected and set to 50% opacity (left) and group selected and set to 50% opacity (right)
Change the appearance of transparent artwork on screen
Use the Display Performance dialog box to set transparency preferences. These preferences determine the on-screen quality of transparent
objects in new documents and in documents saved with modified preferences. You can also set the preferences to turn on or off the display of
transparency in the document. Turning off transparency in the display preferences doesn’t turn off transparency when printing or exporting the file.
Before you print a file containing transparency effects, make sure that you check the transparency preferences first. Printing automatically
flattens the artwork, and may affect the appearance of the transparency effects.
1. Choose Edit > Preferences > Display Performance (Windows) or Adobe InDesign > Preferences > Display Performance (Mac OS).
2. Select an option (Fast, Typical, High Quality) in the Adjust View Settings section to determine the on-screen resolution of any effect in the
document. The settings you change apply only to the option you select here:
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