I just can keep on telling you: it does work. Even if this particular example doesn't do the job: Exporting from InDesign does. I sent Adib a PDF, that clearly shows this in my opinion. Evince however, cannot display it and displays a semi-transparent black box instead. Curiously, the semi-transparent box that _is_ in the document is displayed without the transparency :D
Greetings
David
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 23:44 +0200, jiho wrote:
On 2007-June-09 , at 17:38 , Adib Taraben wrote:
I feared that someone would say this. Probably we have to fall-back into a kind of rasterizer in order to realize those features. Same scary story to alpha/transparency on PS output. Uh ...,
Quartz (the equivalent of Cairo on Mac OS X) produces pdfs with drop- shadows that look quite like vector effects rather than raster blurs to me. These are two examples produced from an Export to PDF (1) and Print to PDF (2): http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/quartz_pdf_1.pdf http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape/quartz_pdf_2_print.pdf I already looked at PDFs produced by quartz on other platforms and the blur was still there. Maybe that could be a lead in the right direction.
Stathis Sideris schrieb:
Not sure whether blur can be supported natively in PDF, but I know that other programs (such as Illustrator for example) seem to handle this by "rasterising" the blur (and other effects) by the use of numerous little boxes (vector "pixels"!) that approximate the effect. Needless to say that the inclusion of such "rasterised" effects results in significantly larger files.
Adib Taraben wrote:
Hello,
I wonder whether pdf has the ability to output blur/filter natively. I do a lot now with blur like shadows but the exported pdf is not the same. I already downloaded the pdf reference but there might be to much pages so I did not found the reference.
I am looking for something that corresponds to svg filters. Could someone point me to the right direction ?
JiHO
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