From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44882 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: linear_shade and xetex Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:46:46 +0200 Message-ID: <48FC4576.3030306@wxs.nl> References: <48FC3A0F.8000402@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224523310 25103 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2008 17:21:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:21:50 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 20 19:22:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KrqT6-00076I-PJ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:50:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 295B71FC67; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:49:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 30787-02-5; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:48:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082D11FC71; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:47:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE9B81FC6F for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:47:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29663-08-3 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340931FB71 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:46:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.238] (unverified [10.100.1.11]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 2934-1840426 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:46:47 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) In-Reply-To: <48FC3A0F.8000402@elvenkind.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.11 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:44882 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> linear shading in MP does not work with xetex. >> Since no one replied am I correct in assuming that this is currently not >> possible or requires a lot of work? > > My guess is that there are communication problems with the pdf > backend (dvipdfmx). In XeTeX, that communication has to happen > via \specials. It could be impossible, or it could simply be > that Hans doesn't know what \special to output. it's just that i didn't adapt some spec-dpx code when i went from supp-pdf+supp-mpe to meta-pdf ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________