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Text turns transparent when the fill color is changed to black even though it is fully opaque when white

Asked by xenocrates

I have been trying to create an advertisement for a little thing I'm arranging at my university. I have spent a decent amount of time making this little add (It needed a starry night as background). I used this picture (http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs19/f/2007/264/e/e/A_New_Chapter_by_Sage_of_Winds.png) to work from. So basically I added another 3-400 pixels to the right and then some new stars. But when i tried to add text to the image i had some very weird experiences. First of all, even though all similar elements have been added to their own layer, with my base text layer being the top layer, when i made the text black instead of white, it turned completely transparent. But if i hid all the other layers, the text was visible and black. If I made the text gray, it would be semi-transparent. But even weirder was that, even though the text was on the top layer and the bottom layer is a picture, I could actually move the text to the left just to see it DISAPPEAR behind the moon in the picture I downloaded!! How can that even be??

I have been left baffled by this for the past 24 hours now. I was trying to create a text with a chrome effect, by following the tutorial http://troy-sobotka.blogspot.com/2007/11/inkscape-tutorial-1-chrome-effect.html. I tried highligting my transparent text and then choose "convert to text" from the Text menu, but when doing a linked offset, the newly created object would just act like the base text did before I used "convert to text."

Please, does anybody know how this can be the case and how I can fix this problem?

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su_v (suv-lp) said : 		#1

Did you accidentally change the blend mode of the text layer to 'Screen' or something else? In the 'Layers' dialog, verify that all layers have the blend mode 'Normal' (unless of course you need a different blend mode and have intentionally changed it).

If this doesn't solve the issue, can you make the SVG file available? You could use a free image hosting service like <http://imgh.us/> which accepts and serves SVG files (the launchpad 'Answers' section doesn't allow attachments).

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xenocrates (bjarne-t) said : 		#2

The problem has apparently gone away. I had not changed the blend mode (I checked that several times), but after having rebooted my computer and then trying to recreate the problem, I discovered that it had magically gone away and now everything works :)

But thanks for your help anyway! The quick response was really nice