[Qgis-user] transparent labels

[Pedro Venâncio]

Hi,

This was an old thread, but this question came to me now. It's possible to apply transparency to the layer's labels?

The transparency that is applied to the layer is not 'replicated' in its label and I can not find a way to apply transparency to the labels (on QGIS 1.8).


Thank you very much!

Best regards,
Pedro




>Tue Oct 20 14:10:14 EDT 2009
>
>
>I'm working on a map of selected U.S. DMA areas and would like to show
>labels on the DMA regions. However, I also need all the county names
>to be readable when the map is rendered. Can I make a layer's labels
>be transparent?
>
>There is a transparency option in the data-defined style settings, but
>that would seem to apply to layer objects and not labels. So far I've
>rendered map and labels separately, and composited them in an external
>image editor to get the transparency effect. These are large image
>files and my system is not exactly top-of-the-line, so I'm looking for
>a better technique : )
>
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