Blend Level in Fields

[Sivakatirswami]

Is there some trick for setting transparency in fields   ("blend")   
such that the foreground color (the textcolor) is not affected by the  
blend level? I tried all the ink options... nothing works.

One would think it obvious that the main use of this new feature  
would be to blend the background behind the type, but not the type  
itself ....but that's not the default behavior.. the blend level  
affects the type as well, making it virtually unreadable if you set  
the blend level to allow background image to show through.  i.e. nice  
feature but virtually useless for most page layout, unless you  
actually want super faint, transparent type which is a very rare  
design decision....(almost always the wrong thing to do)

Of course the work around is (high nuisance factor...) make a blended  
field and then put another field on top... but this doubles the  
number of objects that require management and we could do that before  
by putting a rectangle image object behind a tranparent field... and  
setting the blend level of the image...

I'm hoping I missed something...

Sivakatirswami
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