From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11240 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaFun questions Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:10:42 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030306191042.393233b1.morawski@gmx.net> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20030227155333.02435320@server-1> <20030227140929.20dd563d.morawski@gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.1.20030227155333.02435320@server-1> <5.1.0.14.1.20030303220936.02449970@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046976864 25344 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 18:54:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:54:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Mar 06 19:54:23 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18r0Vb-0006aK-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:54:23 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0470610B56; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:54:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 9CC0310B50 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:51:21 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 20446 invoked by uid 0); 6 Mar 2003 18:51:20 -0000 Original-Received: from port1288.fra.ginko.net (HELO melior.localdomain) (212.202.67.18) by mail.gmx.net (mp018-rz3) with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 18:51:20 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20030303220936.02449970@server-1> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11240 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11240 On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 22:10:27 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote: > At 03:22 PM 2/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: > > >\definecolor[sa][r=1,t=0.7,a=1] > >\definecolor[ea][g=1,t=0.5,a=1] > > > >\definecolor[s][r=1] > >\definecolor[e][g=1] > > > >\startMPgraphic > > path p ; p := unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 5cm ; > > fill p shifted (4cm,4cm) withcolor .7white ; > > fill p shifted (-3cm,-3cm) withcolor .8white ; > > > > linear_shade(p,0,\MPcolor{s},\MPcolor{e}); > >\stopMPgraphic > > > >\loadcurrentMPgraphic\placeMPgraphic > > i'll have a look at it; i'm not even sure if transparent shades are > possible, since the shading vectors need color vectors (implementing > shading and transparency took me quite some time to figure out from the > fuzzy specs] i had a look in the spec today and it seems that it is impossible since transparency can only be applied to objects or groups but not to a color vector. So, we need to wait until PDF1.X supports this. If somebody has good connections to Adobe please ask for this very feature. Jens P.S. If somebody has access to Adobe Illustrator then i could help to know if it is possible there ;-)