Adding transparency to a Static Label in a Document Template

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I have a document template and want to add some text over each page which is partially transparent so that you can still read the text below. I see in the color settings the color preview says “Color/Solid” but I cannot figure out how to change it to something not solid.   If I use the style editor to set the color using rgb values this works correctly (but the text is still solid). For example: color: rgb(206,206,206); However if I try to use rgba values to add transparency this does not work. For example: color: rgba(206,206,206, 0.3); Doing this will just make my text black and solid.   Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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Did you use the ‘Overlay Pdf Document’ java action from the Community Commons?


It has a setting ‘On top of content'. Perhaps if you set that to false it will work the way you want it :) 

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I was looking in the wrong place!

That solves the problem.

Thank you for the help!

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I am not sure, but I see that there is a custom tab in the color (colour) settings. Perhaps with the heklp fo some CSS you could add some transparancy there. 
But honestly I would have hoped by now that Mendix would have gotten rid of this awefully outdated document template feature and came up with something new to replace it.

Good luck buddy!

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Using the value ‘opacity’ always throws an error in the microflow:

“Invalid property encountered on "fo:block": opacity (See position 22:333)”

Using “hlsa” on the text also does not work (the text is always solid black)

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