From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14100 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Colors changing when applying "transparent" Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:37:31 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20031125103235.02c8a220@server-1> References: <6.0.0.22.1.20031125091011.01b77a68@digitpaint.nl> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069753689 21018 80.91.224.253 (25 Nov 2003 09:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Nov 25 10:48:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOZnj-0005IN-00 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:48:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA44110B35; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:47:59 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB26410ACD for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:37:41 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hAP9bch19789 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:37:38 +0100 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 22E4C233CA; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:37:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C08233C8 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:37:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.1.20031125091011.01b77a68@digitpaint.nl> Original-References: <6.0.0.22.1.20031125091011.01b77a68@digitpaint.nl> 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:14100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14100 At 09:20 25/11/2003, you wrote: >\setupoutput[pdftex] >\starttext >\setupcolors[state=start] > >\startuseMPgraphic{tBG} > path p ; > p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ; > fill p withcolor \MPcolor{white}; % With normal colors, > everything is fine (blue is really RGB(0,0,1) > % fill p withcolor transparent("normal",.5,\MPcolor{white}); % > This however results in fading of ALL of the colors... >\stopuseMPgraphic > >\defineoverlay[textBG][\useMPgraphic{tBG}] > >\setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=blue] >\setupbackgrounds[text][background=textBG] > >\input tufte >\stoptext Looks like an acrobat bug to me; if you use gsview, it works ok; there are more problems with acrobat and transparencies, like - no smoothing when a vector graphic is on top of a transparency - disappearing characters (esp very big ones) - funny flattener preview colors One of the reasons for such problems is that there is no 'reset graphics state' operator and i guess that occasionally the acrobat graphic state stack gets messed up. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------