Am Mon, 25 May 2020 12:00:42 +0100 schrieb Philip Taylor: > Way back in 2015, I asked : ...
>> A work around is to set the color to FFFFFF00 (or any other >> value for the alpha since xdvipdfmx does not support transparency >> currently). > and at the time, that appeared to solve my problem. However, it > would appear that since then "xdvipdfmx" has been enhanced to > support transparency, as a result of which Khaled's suggested > FFFFFF00 no longer works Well that is the problem when accepting "work-arounds" as "solutions". > Could anyone tell me how, short of using \specials, I can achieve > 100% white with 100% opacity (= 0% ink) in XeTeX ? Instead of looking for the next workaround I would suggest to do this time the right thing: Report the problem to the dvipdfmx maintainer and ask them to properly support the colors FFFFFF and FFFFFFFF. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/