Grey out PDFs

[Benjamin Weill]

I'd love to be able to "grey out" PDF files - and other image files - within my documents. I get set drawings and other things that I want to put into my light plots files, but I don't always want them to be so prominent. I'd love to be able to gray the class with the PDFS on them, but they just turn into squares with an X through it. As it is, if I want to "grey" the PDFS, I have to draw a white fills box over them and then play with the transparency. It's a work-around, but it's pretty clumsy. I wish there were a way to make this a native thing.

Thanks

[Matt Panzer]

It's been awhile since I've done this but I think you can set the transparency of the PDF object itself.

[Art V]

Yes, you can change the transparency of a PDF in the attributes palette.

Even putting the PDF on a layer and setting that to grey gives a box with an X through it so that is not a workaround either.

It would be nice if it would be possible to set PDFs/images to grey.

Edited August 16, 2015 by Art V

[rDesign]

So does it not do what you want if you change the PDF transparency settings and leave both its Class and Layer as Visible (not Gray)?

Because yes, if you set either its Layer or Class to Gray, you will get the 'box with an X through it'.

[Matt Panzer]

You can also use class attributes to control the opacity. This will allow you to control it's opacity at the viewport level (using class overrides).