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    <p>Hi Benjamin,</p>
    <p>Just to see if I correctly understand you.</p>
    <p>Something along the lines of the selective masking proposal at
      <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/63">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/63</a> where
      one could select not only layers, but also symbol levels (symbol
      layers inside a layer) to selectively mask underlying symbol
      layers.</p>
    <p>Unfortunately this isn't implemented yet. Still looking for
      funders - probably something for QGIS 3.2</p>
    <p>Is this what you want, or something else?</p>
    <p>Greetings,<br>
      Andreas<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04.10.2017 10:18,
      <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Fuenfer-Koenigstein.Benjamin2@swm.de">Fuenfer-Koenigstein.Benjamin2@swm.de</a> wrote:<br>
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            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">I am
            looking for a way to style a point feature layer in a way
            that underlying features are cut out by the point symbols so
            a raster layer at the bottom of the layer tree is visible.
            In other words, the point symbol should make underlying
            vector features transparent. Physically editing the
            underlying features is not practicable as I’m working with
            read only data sources. I’m happy to hear your ideas!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE">Mit
            freundlichen Grüßen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE">Benjamin
            Fünfer-Königstein<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE"
            lang="EN-US">S-IP-AN-TG Techn.
          </span><span style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE">Geschäftsfelder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE">Mobil: +49
            (0)176 96 58 13 23</span><span
            style="color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:DE"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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