Thanks for your reply. I agree that postscript is getting older, but I wouldn't go as far as to say "a thing of the past" :) In particular, I find myself using postscript (and .eps figures) in LaTeX documents and that is why I wanted good support for drawing diagrams and converting them to EPS. (I know, I could use pdflatex, however that has a few issues sometimes.)
I wonder whether the pdf -> postscript converters handle transparency well.
Ashwin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:11:49 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:01:03 -0500, Ashwin Bharambe <ashwinb@...400...> wrote:
Hi all,
I am assuming that postscript not having transparency natively would be the reason for inkscape not supporting transparency in EPS or postscript outputs.
Yes.
What would be required to implement support for this?
Other apps fake it by "flattening" objects and, if necessary, partly rasterizing them so that the output looks the same but does not require transparency. I'm not in favor of us doing the same: it's very difficult to implement, and plain PS is a thing of the past anyway. Most users of PS have migrated to PDF, which has native transparency since 1.4. So what we should work on is a decent PDF exporter instead.