Opacity is "global" in Illustrator?

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I'm experimenting with Transparency.

I have one object which I want to set the "Fill" opacity to 50%.

The stroke should not change accordingly? But it does not seem to stay at 100% opacity?
What am I missing?

Looks like I can't set the Fill and Stroke opacity separately, such as in InDesign?

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Jacob Bugge

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Roger,

With the Appearance palette, you can do many things, adding attributes and working with each individually by selecting it; you can read on here to get started,

https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/appearance-attributes.html

The key to the differentiation is to

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Monika Gause

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You can do that.

Open the Appearance panel from the Window menu. There you can set opecity and blend mode different for stroke and fill.

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Roger BretonAuthor

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Dear Monika,

Is there a "trick" I am missing again? Here, as you can see, the Fill is set to Black 5% Opacity and the Stroke is set to 100% Opacity. I increased the Stroke size so that you can see what is going on: it does not seem to work :