General ⇒ Unable to get transparent text

[Cham]

The following code should use a transparent diagonal line of text after a few pages, but it's all blocky red when I compile the PDF, even after 3 runs. The preview is okay though. What is wrong ?

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage,tightenlines]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,10in},left=1in,top=0.5in,bottom=0.5in,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage{transparent}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}

\begin{document}

\Blindtext

\newpage

\Blindtext\Blindtext

\newwatermark*[allpages,angle=45,color=red,scale=2.5,textalign=center,height=\paperheight,width=\paperwidth,xpos=0,ypos=0]{\transparent{0.15} \bfseries\sffamily TOP SECRET!}

\subsection{Titre}

\Blindtext

\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I see transparent red in the TeXworks preview and with the Adobe Reader on the Mac. Can you post the .pdf output of that example, as attachment, and the .log file?

Stefan

[Cham]

I see transparent red in the TeXworks preview and with the Adobe Reader on the Mac. Can you post the .pdf output of that example, as attachment, and the .log file?

Here's the PDF file I got :

LatexianExport.pdf

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From the preview window of my LaTeX app, the transparency is there. Once compiled, the PDF opened with the Preview app on a Mac, the red diagonal TOP SECRET is all opaque. The console says I need a re-run :

Package transparent Warning: Rerun to get transparencies right.

No complaints by nag.

So no wonder I don't get a proper PDF file, but 3 runs don't get the transparency right. So I don't know what's wrong here.

I'm using pdfLaTeX 2015.

[Cham]

Since I'm unable to get the transparency right, for some unknown reasons, I'll change my approach to add a watermark. Instead of a diagonal line on top of the text, I'll put it vertically into the margin.