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By default Text has a transparent background. However, combined with other graphics with the opacity option, the text background turns to white and even overrides explicitly defined background.

For example:

Graphics3D[{{Opacity @.5, Cylinder[]}, Text @ Style["Text", Large]}, Boxed -> False]

How can one fix this behavior to display transparent background?

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    $\begingroup$ On 11.1 version it works well. $\endgroup$
    – David Baghdasaryan
    May 12 '17 at 15:48
  • $\begingroup$ I am using 11.1 as well $\endgroup$
    – arslancharyev31
    May 12 '17 at 15:53
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    $\begingroup$ Please do not post images of your work, especially when the images display at a size that make them difficult to read. Please post your actual Mathematica code in the form of text that can be copied and pasted into a Mathematica notebook. Without such, it will be difficult to reproduce your problem and to experiment with possible solutions. $\endgroup$
    – m_goldberg
    May 12 '17 at 18:13
  • $\begingroup$ Got it. Added sample code. $\endgroup$
    – arslancharyev31
    May 12 '17 at 18:33
  • $\begingroup$ Using you sample code, I can not reproduce your problem with V11.0.1 running on OS X 10.10.2. The graphics rendered when I evaluate your code looks exactly like the image you wanted, not like the image you post. $\endgroup$
    – m_goldberg
    May 12 '17 at 18:36
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It turns out that the problem only arises when DirectX is used as a rendering engine. Switching to OpenGL/Mesa fixed the problem in my case.

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  • $\begingroup$ How do you switch between rendering engines? $\endgroup$
    – Alexey Popkov
    May 13 '17 at 2:39
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    $\begingroup$ @AlexeyPopkov, the user-friendly way is Edit -> Preferences... -> Advanced tab -> Open Option Inspector button -> expand the 'Graphic Options' branch -> Rendering Options -> 3DRenderingEngine $\endgroup$
    – arslancharyev31
    May 13 '17 at 11:23

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