On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 18:35:26 -0500 (EST), Michael Forbes <miforbes@...734...> wrote:
I attached a patch for Inkscape to allow it to export both linear and radial gradients subject to all transformations I could think of.
Very cool, thanks! I'll test it.
Of course its usefulness is limited by the fact that it still loses transparency (both in individual gradient stops and on entire objects), but as I understand this is a limitation of PS3 which we cannot do anything about. Still, even without transparency, PS3 gradient export is a good thing to have.
I had some problems with GhostView rendering some radial gradients when the focus of the gradient is outside the actual object it fills. But I think it is a bug in GhostScript and not my understanding of PostScript.
Have you tried that with distiller + acrobat?
The only thing I am unsure is whether it is a good idea to change "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" to "%!PS-Adobe-3.0" since PostScript gradients are a Level 3 feature (perhaps some programs can't handle postscript level 3.
Ideally this should be user-settable. We have a simple options dialog that goes up when you save as EPS. I think what we need to do is to make this dialog come up for all PS output operations (print via PS, save as PS/EPS/EPSI, and perhaps also save as AI because I think it's done via PS too) and add a choice of PS level there.