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eDocEngine VCL provides document-creation components for several formats. A document-creation engine component may have some format-specific API. The PDF engine component has a PDF-specific TextEffects property. Its Opacity property can be used to control the opacity of the text that is rendered on a PDF page. Similar opacity settings are also available for line drawings (path or shape objects) and images.

procedure TForm20.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  try
    with gtPDFEngine1 do begin
      Preferences.ShowSetupDialog := False;
      FileName := 'e:\opacity_test.pdf';
      Font.Size := 40;

      BeginDoc;
      for i := 10 downto 1 do begin
        TextEffects.Opacity := i * 10;
        TextOut(1, 11-i, 'Hello, world!');
      end;
      EndDoc;
    end;
  except on Err:Exception do
     ShowMessage(Err.Message);
  end;
  close;
end;