On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 13:00, Alan Horkan wrote:
So much for an unbiased write up, the Grid Mesh Tool rocks! (Well it produces great looking results, I haven't quite gottne the hang of using it yet).
Putting on my artist hat for a moment, that is something I'd love to have; file the RFE of course, but I think I have an initial assignment for you or anyone who's interested:
Basically, SVG only supports linear and radial gradients. Same for Postscript <= 1.2, I think.
Our goal of SVG-compliance means that that rendering has to be identical between basic SVG viewers and Inkscape (i.e. for features that SVG doesn't do directly, we at least need the ability to "fake" the appearance using standard SVG features).
Fortunately, Adobe Illustrator can print/export gradient meshes at older versions of Postscript, so apparently they can be simulated with an SVG-like set of facilities.
So, I need somebody to research how Illustrator simulates gradient meshes in "compatable" Postscript, and maybe add notes to the RFE describing it.
-mental