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Tag Definition: blendMode

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Attributes

Name

Required?

Default_Value

Values

mode

required

None

['Normal', 'MultiPly', 'Screen', 'Overlay', 'Darken', 'Lighten', 'ColorDodge', 'ColorBurn', 'HardLight', 'SoftLight', 'Difference', 'Exclusion', 'Hue', 'Saturation', 'Color', 'Luminosity']

Can contain
EMPTY

Purpose

This is to select a blend mode between overlapping graphics. See the relevant rml sample here.

Example usage

<document filename="test_045_overprint.pdf" colorSpace="CMYK">
    <docinit>
        <color id="Cyan" CMYK="[1,0,0,0]" />
        <color id="Magenta" CMYK="[0,1,0,0]" />
    </docinit>
    <template>
        <pageTemplate id="main">
            <pageGraphics>
                <blendMode mode="Screen"/>
                <fill color="Cyan"/>
                <rect x="75" y="600" width="50" height="50" fill="1"/>
                <fill color="Magenta"/>
                <rect x="100" y="625" width="50" height="50" fill="1"/>
            </pageGraphics>
            <frame id="main" x1="35" y1="45" width="525" height="490"/>
        </pageTemplate>
    </template>
    ...
</document>

Note: Only relevant sections are used in this snippet. Some tags were not included. See some of our samples for further insight of how you may go about setting up a full document using rml.

Example of nesting path from the parent tags to the current tag

<document> ➔ <template> ➔ <pageTemplate> ➔ <pageGraphics> ➔ <blendMode>