From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: blurred shadow on images?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 22:58:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85FAD4D3-69A5-459A-A3B7-776BE346CBF8@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1F09F1.6030404@elvenkind.com>
Am 2010-06-21 um 08:42 schrieb Taco Hoekwater:
> Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>> I'd like to place some plain photos rotated (say 12°) and with a
>> blurred shadow above some colored elements, i.e. the shadow must
>> use transparency.
>> I guess I could get such using ImageMagick, but is there a
>> possibility using ConTeXt or one of its favourite friends?
>> I'd prefer a solution that works with CMYK data.
>
> Creating a semi-transparent backdrop with metapost is quite simple,
> but I am not sure whether that works with cmyk, you'll have to try
> yourself. Code goes something like this:
Thank you, I'll try.
Seems like I should learn MetaPost finally...
>> If there isn't - is the transparency of PNG usable?
>
> Sure, and may use less resources than mp drawings, but that is
> definitely RGB
Yes, of course. Since I only need to output on a color laser printer,
it will probably work.
Processing time matters.
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-20 13:37 Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-06-21 6:42 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-06-22 20:58 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2010-06-30 12:39 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2010-06-30 20:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-07-01 8:58 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
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