Transparency for background image

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To Georg,

Sorry NDA
The Crash happens even if I try to export a new design or a single letterform.

Regards

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Hey Georg, I pasted this into the Macro Panel and pressed Run. I’m running Glyphs Version 2.4RC (936). It returns:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'NSKVONotifying_GSLayer' object has no attribute 'backgoundImage'

Am I doing it wrong? Thanks!

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there was a typo in the original post (I fixed it).

Layer.backgroundImage.alpha = 30
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Works now – and this is such a handy script.

Thanks Georg!

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Hi @GeorgSeifert,

Bumping this one back up six years later. After updating to Glyphs 3, I’ve been receiving the following error when adding transparency to background reference images:

NameError: name ‘Layer’ is not defined

I don’t believe I’ve done anything differently than always—drop a .jpg in and try to run the following macro:

Layer.backgroundImage.alpha = 30

Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong here? Thanks for taking a look!

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The code works for me. Are you currently working on a glyph. If no glyph is selected, the Layer variable will be undefined.