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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
Subject: Re: shading
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 21:25:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD41D3A.5040401@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <050901F7-7B3E-4711-AD64-4CF636DEF2F1@fiee.net>

On 18-5-2011 8:55, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
> Am 2011-05-18 um 20:30 schrieb Marco:
>
>>> For this metafun has been extended with a few more
>>> shading commands, with the nicest being:
>>> […]
>>
>> Very nice these commands! I like them.
>>
>> But the shadings in MP still have problems with
>> transparency. Example below.
>>
>> I guess, it's not supported. If not, are you planing to
>> add it or is it unlikely?
>
>
> Transparency, combined with spot colors and gradients, is really tricky.
> Maybe not so much in MP, but at least in InDesign you must know how you
> export your PDFs to get expected and printable (i.e. color separable)
> results.
> Hans, do you need another example?

no, transparency does not relate to shades (i.e. is not part of the 
shading function)

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 19:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 16:24 shading Hans Hagen
2011-05-18 18:30 ` shading Marco
2011-05-18 18:55   ` shading Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-05-18 19:25     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-05-18 19:18   ` shading Hans Hagen
2011-05-18 20:24   ` shading Hans Hagen
2011-05-19 10:08     ` shading Marco
2011-05-19 10:55       ` shading Hans Hagen
2011-05-19 12:22         ` shading Marco
2020-02-25 11:34 Shading Fabrice Couvreur
2020-02-25 16:18 ` Shading Wolfgang Schuster
2020-02-26 10:34   ` Shading Fabrice Couvreur

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