From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to "unfill" a picture?
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:21:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60138A42-2DCC-4322-8961-2349F2CE8EAA@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <769ba7780906232013r6e343aabn577e902e5dc340d9@mail.gmail.com>
Am 24.06.2009 um 05:13 schrieb Zhichu Chen:
> Hi, I got a problem in metapost. If I want to draw a ring, and
> use the code:
> fill fullcircle scaled 2cm ;
> unfill fullcircle scaled 1cm ;
> The inner part is not transparent, it has the color of "background"
> variable which is "white" by default.
>
> This case is a minimal example, I actually wanna draw something
> more complex, like the glyph "Q" and I know the inner path and
> outer path. How can I fill the ring without jeopardizing the area
> inside
> the inner path?
fill fullcircle scaled 2cm -- reverse -- fullcircle scaled 1cm --
cycle ;
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-24 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 3:13 Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 6:55 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 7:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-06-24 7:48 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 9:02 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-06-24 8:21 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2009-06-24 10:42 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 10:59 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 11:29 ` Hans Hagen
2009-06-24 11:42 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-24 14:12 ` Nicola
2009-06-24 14:45 ` Zhichu Chen
2009-06-25 5:15 ` Lutz Haseloff
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